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n. - Mostly white web-footed sea warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrate characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings often found far from land.

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  • White-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) occurs as a distinctive morph on Europa Island.
  • The bird fauna of Niue Island, southwest Pacific, with special notes on the white-tailed tropicbird and golden plover.
  • Geographical variation in the white-tailed tropicbird Phaethon lepturus, with the description of a new subspecies endemic to Europa Island, southern Mozambique Channel.
  • The major islands have such special species as the white-tailed tropicbird, the rare Manx (Newell's) shearwater, and the dark-rumped petrel, all of which seek crater...
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