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| Phaethontidae |
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| Phaethon aethereus
Pelagic, breeding on islands on cliff ledges or seaside caves. Islands in Gulf of California and on Consag Rock and San Pedro Mártir and San Jorge islands; Revillagigedo, Tres Marías and Isabela islands and Alijos Rocks off w Mexico, and islands off S. America incl. Galapagos Is. and islands from Colombia s to c Peru. Caribbean on Culebra and Vieques is. off Puerto Rico; small islets in the Virgin Is. and Lesser Antilles s to Grenada and Tobago; on Swan Key in Almirante Bay, nw Panama; and off n Venezuela on Los Hermanos and Los Roques. Islands off Africa incl. Cape Verde Is., Ascension, St. Helena and Socotra, and small islands off Senegal, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia and Yemen. Islands off Brazil; islands in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Persian Gulf. Ranges at sea in the Atlantic n to New York and s to Brazil; in w Pacific to the Paracel Islands in the s China Sea; e Pacific n to Washington, w to Hawaiian Is., and s to Chile; in tropical Indian Ocean. |
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