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Phaethon lepturus
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. The bird has a black band on the inner wing, a black eye-mask, and the bill is orange-yellow to orange-red.[3] The bill colour, pure white back and black wing bar distinguish this species from red-billed.
These pictures were taken on Bird island in the Seychelles where there are no natural predators and they breed near to the ground, in the shelter of tree roots, seemingly oblivious of all the happy photographers
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