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The avifauna of Bermuda include 408 species, according to the Bermuda Audubon Society (BAS), with some additions from Clements taxonomy, as of July 2022. [1]The 387 species is a remarkable number considering that the island is a mere 53.3 square kilometres.
The adult white-tailed tropicbird is a slender, mainly white bird, 71–80 cm long including the very long central tail feathers, which double its total length. The wingspan is 89–96 cm. The bird has a black band on the inner wing, a black eye-mask, and an orange-yellow to orange-red bill. [8]
The national bird of Bermuda is the white-tailed tropicbird or longtail, which is a summer migrant to Bermuda, its most northerly breeding site. Other native birds include the eastern bluebird, grey catbird and perhaps the common ground dove.
Important Bird Areas of Bermuda (1 P) Pages in category "Birds of Bermuda" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
The tropicbirds' call is typically a loud, piercing, shrill, but grating whistle, or crackle. These are often given in a rapid series when they are in a display flight at the colony. In old literature they were referred to as boatswain (bo'sun'/bosun) birds due their loud whistling calls. [11] Red-billed tropicbird, Genovesa Island, Galapagos
About 148 to 150 million years ago, a strange pheasant-sized and bird-like dinosaur with elongated legs and arms built much like wings inhabited southeastern China, with a puzzling anatomy ...
The Bermuda petrel (Pterodroma cahow) is a gadfly petrel. Commonly known in Bermuda as the cahow, a name derived from its eerie cries, this nocturnal ground-nesting seabird is the national bird of Bermuda, pictured on Bermudian currency. Bermuda petrels are the second rarest seabird on the planet.
Ernesto made landfall on Bermuda early Saturday as a Category 1 hurricane with sustained wind speeds of 85 mph and gusts at 105 mph but had weakened to a tropical storm by early Sunday with ...