WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD

Photographed on Cocos Islands December 2016

940           WHITE-TAILED TROPICBIRD             Phaethon lepturus

AUSTRALIA (Cocos Island)          667

Subspecies Golden Bosunbird were previous   :   lepturus: found in Indian Ocean;  fulvous (Golden Bosunbird) found Christmas Island; dorotheae found Pacific Ocean; catesbyi found in Bermuda and the Carribbean; ascension found Ascension Island; and europa found on Europa Island, s Mozambique Channel.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

   

Subspecies fulvus, photographed on Christmas Island, December 2016