White-tailed tropicbird nesting on the ground on Cousin Island. Tropicbirds are usually solitary or in pairs away from breeding colonies. There they engage in spectacular courtship displays.

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The long white tail streamers are visible from a great distance. Nests on coastal and inland cliffs on the main islands. Often seen flying over canyons and along cliffs. At sea usually flies high above the water. Calls are loud clucks and squawks. Smaller and more graceful in flight than Red-tailed Tropicbird.

The white-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) or yellow-billed tropicbird is a tropicbird. It is the smallest of three closely related seabirds of the tropical oceans and smallest member of the order Phaethontiformes. It is found in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific and Indian Oceans.

2024年5月27日 · There are currently three living species of tropicbirds, including the white-tailed tropicbird, the red-tailed tropicbird, and the red-billed tropicbird. All three types are part of the Phaethontidae family and the Phaethon genus.

The red-billed tropicbird (Phaethon aethereus) is a tropicbird, one of three closely related species of seabird of tropical oceans. Superficially resembling a tern in appearance, it has mostly white plumage with some black markings on the wings and back, a black mask and, as its common name suggests, a red bill.

The White-tailed Tropicbird (known in Bermuda as the “Longtail”) is Bermuda’s only remaining, locally common seabird, with over 600 breeding pairs nest on the Castle Islands Nature Reserve, including about 200 pairs nesting on Nonsuch Island.

The only tropicbird likely to be seen off the California coast, but rare even there; sometimes seen on boat trips to the southern Channel Islands. Common in parts of the Caribbean, the Red-billed Tropicbird very rarely strays to waters off Florida or elsewhere in the east.

The rarest of the three tropicbird species occurring in U.S. waters, the Red-tailed Tropicbird nests in the Hawaiian Islands and disperses widely across the Pacific Ocean during its nonbreeding season.

The White-tailed Tropicbird's range encompasses a broad band of tropical and subtropical areas around the world. The birds can be seen from the southern Indian Ocean and western and central Pacific, to tropical and subtropical parts of the Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean.