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BERMUDA LONGTAIL. I am at a loss about posting a picture but please Google it.
It's a beautiful bird.
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BERMUDA LONGTAIL
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, 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".
The White-tailed Tropicbird breeds on tropical islands laying a single egg
directly onto the ground or a cliff ledge. It disperses widely across the oceans
when not breeding, and sometimes wanders far. It feeds on fish and squid, caught
by surface plunging, but this species is a poor swimmer. The call is a high
screamed keee-keee-krrrt-krrt-krrt.
The adult White-tailed Tropicbird is a slender, mainly white bird, 71–80 cm long
including the very long central tail feathers, which double its total length.
The wingspan is 89–96 cm, and there is a black band on the inner wing There is
black through the eye and the bill is orange-yellow to orange red. The bill
colour, pure white back and black wing bar distinguish this species from
Red-billed.
Sexes are similar, although males average longer tailed, but juveniles lack the
tail streamers, have a green-yellow bill, and a finely barred back.
Jan in CT
