white-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus)

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Subject:	white-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus)
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Resolution: 1224x1079 File Size: 782157 Bytes Date: 2012:02:09 13:57:31 Camera: Canon EOS 500D (Canon) F number: f/9.0 Exposure: 1/320 sec Focal Length: 230/1 Upload Date: 2017:04:04 01:21:05

white-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus)

white-tailed tropicbird flying by
Date 9 February 2012
Author Yooshau
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:White-tailed_tropicbird.jpg

The white-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) 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.

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Scientific Name: Phaethon lepturus Daudin, 1802 Common Names: White-tailed Tropicbird, Yellow-billed Tropicbird French: Phaéton à bec jaune; German: Weißchwanz-Tropikvogel; Spanish: Rabijunco menor, Rabijunco cola blanca Taxonomy: Phaëton [sic] lepturus Daudin, 1802, Mauritius.

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