BirdUp · Species
White-tailed Tropicbird
Phaethon lepturusDaudin, 1802
- Order
- PHAETHONTIFORMES
- Family
- Phaethontidae
- Genus
- Phaethon
- Conservation
- Least Concern
- Commonness
- Very common
- Best seen
- Year-round
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
The white-tailed tropicbird 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. 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".
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- TrO : widespread all tropical oceans (except east Pacific and north-east Atlantic)
- Non-breeding range
- Pelagic; to waters off east Africa, west and south Sri Lanka (west and north Indian Ocean), Indonesian Arch. and New Guinea waters, east-central Australia (south-west South Pacific) and Gulf Stream north to North Carolina (west North Atlantic)
03 · When
When to look
Months this species is recorded across its Australian range.
- Jan
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05 · Behaviour
Habits and haunts
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