White-tailed tropicbird Phaethon lepturus
Identification Tips:
Length: 26 inches Wingspan: 37 inches
Sexes similar
Pelagic bird only coming ashore to breed
Tern-sized
White head and body
Outer primaries black
Dark eye patch ...
White-tailed Tropicbird
Phaethon lepturus Daudin
Status Rare vagrant. Ten records since 1870, five of which were collected. Several are known to have been victims of heavy gales; probably all were.
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus. Accidental. Hypothetical.
Red-billed Tropicbird Phaethon aethereus. Accidental.
Boobies and Gannets - Family Sulidae ...
White-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus)
Spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris)
Cape gannet (Morus capensis)
African grey parrot (Psittacus erithacus)
Emperor dragonfly (Anax imperator)
Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) ...
White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus
Australian Gannet Morus serrator (Takapu)
Brown Booby Sula leucogaster ...
White-tailed Tropicbird, Phaethon lepturus
Red-billed Tropicbird, Phaethon aethereus
Red-tailed Tropicbird, Phaethon rubricauda (C)
[edit] Boobies and gannets ...
Bermuda: White-tailed Tropicbird
Bolivia: the Andean Condor
British Virgin Islands: the Mourning Dove ...
THE TROPIC BIRD.
[White-tailed Tropicbird.]
PHAETON AETHEREUS, Linn.
[Phaeton lepturus.] ...
Following the birds' rediscovery in 1951, the Bermuda Conservation Programme periodically removed rats, installed concrete nesting burrows with wooden baffles over burrow entrances to keep out larger, competing White-tailed Tropicbirds, ...
The three different tropicbird species are the red-billed tropicbird, the red-tailed tropicbird and the white-tailed tropicbird, all of which are generally white in colour with long tail feathers, and thin spindly legs.
Red-tailed Tropicbird, P. rubricauda (Indian Ocean and the western and central tropical Pacific)
White-tailed Tropicbird, P. lepturus (widespread in tropical waters, except in the eastern Pacific) ...
 See also: Tropicbird, Swallow, Frigatebird, Bat, Hawk
  
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