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White-tailed Tropicbird nesting in the Seychelles
On Cousin Island, where you can see some highly endangered birds that are found nowhere else, you can also see some seabirds up close - like this one. Otherwise, I have only ever seen them in flight from very great distances.
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
By Barry
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Uploaded Jun 15, 2017. Captured Nov 21, 2013 08:24 in Unnamed Road, Grand Anse, Seychelles.
