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Phaethon lepturus (White-tailed Tropicbird)

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Wikipedia Abstract

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". There are six races:
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Infraspecies

Phaethon lepturus ascensionis
Phaethon lepturus catesbyi (White-tailed Tropicbird) (Attributes)
Phaethon lepturus dorotheae
Phaethon lepturus europae
Phaethon lepturus fulvus
Phaethon lepturus lepturus (White-tailed Tropicbird) (Attributes)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
16
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
42
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 32.4731
EDGE Score: 3.51074
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  300 grams
Birth Weight [3]  30 grams
Female Weight [3]  392 grams
Breeding Habitat [2]  Coastal islands, Pelagic
Wintering Geography [2]  Tropical Oceans
Wintering Habitat [2]  Coastal islands, Pelagic
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore
Diet - Fish [4]  70 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  30 %
Forages - Water Surface [4]  20 %
Forages - Underwater [4]  80 %
Clutch Size [5]  1
Clutches / Year [3]  1
Fledging [3]  76 days
Incubation [5]  41 days
Maximum Longevity [5]  16 years
Wing Span [5]  36 inches (.91 m)

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. No
East Melanesian Islands Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu No
Madagascar and the Indian Ocean Islands Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles No
Polynesia-Micronesia Fiji, Micronesia, Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, United States No
Sundaland Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand No

Emblem of

Bermuda

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Saemundssonia uppalensis[7]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1WEIGHT RECESSION IN NESTLING BIRDS, Robert E. Ricklefs, The Auk, 85: 30-35. January, 1968
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 6Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 7Species Interactions of Australia Database, Atlas of Living Australia, Version ala-csv-2012-11-19
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0