White-tailed Tropicbird, Phaethon lepturus, s a bird occasionally seen on Hatteras pelagics but one I’d missed for a few trips. On this day, it was the first bird seen, it circled the boat once, and was gone. It nests as far north as Bermuda in the Caribbean.
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