White-tailed Tropicbirds are the smallest of the three species of Tropicbird. They are widely spread throughout southern oceans except for the Pacific.
These birds lay a single egg on a cliff ledge or on the ground.
Classification:
Order: Phaethontiformes
Family: Phaethontidae
Genus: Phaethon
Species: P. lepturus
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White-tailed tropicbird AKA Golden Bosun (Ed. note: This is the subspecies P. l. fulvus of Christmas Island.)
White-tailed Tropicbird
White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus).
White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus).
White-tailed Tropicbird: North Carolina Pelagic | Nature Notes …
White-tailed Tropicbird, Phaethon lepturus, s a bird occasionally seen on Hatteras pelagics but one I’d missed for a few trips. On this day, it was the first bird seen, it circled the boat o… Read more…
Rabo-de-junco-de-bico-amarelo (White-Tailed Tropicbird) on Flickr …
The white-tailed tropicbird builds its nests high up in the cliffs and rocks of Fernando de Noronha. Since they’re almost always flying high up, they’re very difficult to photograph. Th… Read more…
Photos of Jaws and its resident White Tailed Tropic Bird
I Arrived at a cliff top to view Jaws from afar, an unusual vantage point I must admit, when just checking out over the edge of the cliff, out of the blue, this white tailed tropicbird appeared… Read more…
This is a white-tailed tropicbird chick. When I arrived at Kilauea Point National Wildlife Refuge today, it was sitting on a launch box thinking about what it did wrong when it left its nest th… Read more…
contributed by : michelle and peter wong. Read more…
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Denis Island turns the corner…
Over the last 3 years a few pairs of white-tailed tropicbird have been noted to breed on the island in some tree cavities and also one high up in the lighthouse! What was really awaited however… Read more…
white-tailed tropicbird (phaeton lepturus)
white-tailed tropicbird (phaethon lepturus). indonesian-burung buntut satek putih. description: medium-sized (41 cm excluding tail streamers) white seabird with trailing, long, white tail strea… Read more…
Seabirds used 2 distinct foraging areas (delta C-13), one used by sooty tern Sterna fuscata and white-tailed tropicbird Phaethon lepturus and one used by red-footed booby Sula sula and great Fr… Read more…
for example, the 5th edition had a nice photo of a white-tailed tropicbird from above, showing the black markings on its wings that help differentiate it from the red-tailed tropicbird when it … Read more…
global warming brings tropical birds to hong kong, watchers say
the birds - a great frigate and the white-tailed tropicbird - were both spotted around po toi, hong kong’s southern most island, over the last month. it was the first time the white-tailed … Read more…
