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Phaethon The White-tailed tropicbird<br />
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Phaethon lepturus<br />
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Phaethon

The White-tailed tropicbird

Phaethon lepturus

Mauritius

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The white-tailed tropicbird '''' is a tropicbird, smallest of three closely related seabirds of the tropical oceans and smallest member of the order Phaethontiformes. It occurs in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific and Indian Oceans. It also breeds on some Caribbean islands, and a few pairs have started nesting recently on Little Tobago, joining the red-billed tropicbird colony. In addition to the tropical Atlantic, it nests as far north as Bermuda, where it is locally called a "longtail".
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Similar species: Tropicbirds
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Uploaded Dec 31, 2014. Captured Aug 16, 2013 09:59 in B 28, Bambous Virieux, Mauritius.
  • Canon EOS 5D Mark III
  • f/11.0
  • 1/395s
  • ISO250
  • 800mm