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First coastal record of the White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus in Costa Rica


Authors

KAS KOENRAADS1 & PABLO ELIZONDO2,3
1HAS University of Applied Sciences, Department of Applied Biology, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands (kas.koenraads@gmail.com)
2Costa Rica Bird Observatories, Edificio Administrativo del INBio, Santo Domingo de Heredia, Costa Rica
3US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 1700 Bayview Drive, Arcata, California 95521

Citation

KOENRAADS, K. & ELIZONDO, P. 2017. First coastal record of the White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus in Costa Rica. Marine Ornithology 45: 57 - 58

Received 6 June 2016, accepted 16 December 2016

Date Published: 2017/04/15
Date Online: 2017/02/28
Key words: White-tailed Tropicbird, Costa Rica, new record

Abstract

The White-tailed Tropicbird Phaethon lepturus occurs in tropical oceans and is regularly recorded off the eastern coast of the United States and Mexico. In Costa Rica, the species is known from two records in the Pacific Ocean. Here, we present the first documented record of the species on the coast of continental Costa Rica. A single, after-first-cycle individual was observed flying north near Tortuguero, Costa Rica, on 12 April 2013. This is likely to be a wandering individual visiting the coast for feeding or a vagrant blown inland by high winds.

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