| White-tailed tropicbird | |
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| Warwick Parish, Bermuda | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Phaethontiformes |
| Family: | Phaethontidae |
| Genus: | Phaethon |
| Species: | P. lepturus
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| Binomial name | |
| Phaethon lepturus Daudin, 1802
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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. 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".[2]
- ^ BirdLife International (2020). "Phaethon lepturus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22696645A163887639. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22696645A163887639.en. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
- ^ Longtail. The Bermuda Audubon Society.