NATURE OF TOKELAU Redtailed Tropicbird Silver Coin 5$ Tokelau 2012

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NATURE OF TOKELAU Redtailed Tropicbird Silver Coin 5$ Tokelau 2012 NATURE OF TOKELAU FIRST OF SERIES Issued in legal tender in Tokelau Islands in 2012, it honors one of the rarest Redtailed Tropicbird yet is still a widespread bird that is not considered threatened. It looks like a stout tern, and hence closely resembles the other two tropicbird species. The coin’s reverse depicts a design of a coloured red-tailed tropicbird, the background incorporates a beautifull tropical landscape and the inscriptions "NATURE OF TOKELAU" and "Phaethon rubricauda". The coin’s obverse depicts the Ian Rank-Broadley effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. BACKGROUND AND HISTORY RED-TAILED TROPICBIRD Named for its greatly elongated tail streamers, which are boldly coloured red and can measure up to 35 centimetres in length, the red-tailed tropicbird is a graceful seabird. The plumage is predominantly white, often with a pinkish sheen. Chicks hatch out covered in long, whitish to gray down, which moults to a juvenile plumage of white with heavy black barring on the head, back, and uppersides of the wings, before they develop the adult plumage. This elegant bird has a robust, yet streamlined body with long, sharply-pointed wings that provide aerodynamic efficiency while soaring on thermals far out at sea, and a stout, downward-curving bill with read more

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