| 11. | It provides feeding habitat during the breeding season for 75 90 red-billed tropicbirds.
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| 12. | Birds breeding on Pitcairn include the fairy tern, common noddy and red-tailed tropicbird.
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| 13. | The great frigate bird and the white-tailed tropicbird are other spectacular residents of the atoll.
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| 14. | R�union is home to a variety of birds such as the white-tailed tropicbird ( ).
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| 15. | Tropicbird chicks have slower growth than nearshore birds, and they tend to accumulate fat deposits while young.
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| 16. | Tropicbirds are a family, Phaethontidae, of tropical pelagic seabirds now classified in their own order Phaethontiformes.
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| 17. | The tropicbirds'call is typically a loud, piercing, shrill, but grating whistle, or crackle.
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| 18. | The white-tailed tropicbird breeds on tropical islands laying a single egg directly onto the ground or a cliff ledge.
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| 19. | The island is home to an endemic subspecies of white-tailed tropicbird ( " Phaethon lepturus europae " ).
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| 20. | Sailors nicknamed the tropicbird the " bosun bird " due to the call's resemblance to a bosun's whistle.
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