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Red-tailed Tropicbird (4/16)
PHAETHONTIFORMES: Phaethontidae
Phaethon rubricauda
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© Kay Parkin 2014
Norfolk Island, NSW (Jan, 2014)
- Total Photos16
- Geoff4 [4]
- Kay12 [12]
When courting the pairs fly in aerial displays calling loudly. To show off their long tails to best advantage the birds will fly with their bodies held vertically. Often the bird will move backwards in the air.
*Hermes, Neil (1985). Birds of Norfolk Island. Wonderland Publications, Norfolk Island, p.22.
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