How big does the White-Tailed Tropicbird get?

The White-Tailed Tropicbird grows to about 78 cm.

White-Tailed Tropicbird

Phaethon lepturus

Group: Other
Max size: 78 cm
IUCN status: LC

Slender and white with two long ribbon tail feathers, the white tailed tropicbird ranges far out over deep water and plunge dives from fifteen to twenty metres up to snatch flyingfish and squid. Adults wander the open ocean alone, sometimes hundreds of kilometres from land.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Chordata › Aves › Pelecaniformes › Phaethontidae › Phaethon

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 212594.

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How big does the White-Tailed Tropicbird get?: The White-Tailed Tropicbird grows to about 78 cm.