White-Tailed Tropicbird 25 Cents Bermuda Authentic Coin Money for Jewelry and Craft Making (Chamorro Death-Screaming Utak)
Reverse: Bermuda Longtail bird, known more widely as the White-tailed Tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus).
Lettering: TWENTY-FIVE CENTS
Obverse: Queen Elizabeth II facing right with the country name to the left.
Lettering:
BERMUDA ELIZABETH II
Features
Issuer Bermuda
Queen Elizabeth II (1952-date)
Type Standard circulation coin
Years 1986-1998
Value 25 Cents
0.25 BMD = USD 0.25
Currency Dollar (1970-date)
Composition Copper-nickel
Weight 5.95 g
Diameter 24.21 mm
Thickness 1.74 mm
Shape Round
Technique Milled
Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑
Number N# 3216
References KM# 47, Schön# 47
Wikipedia:
The white-tailed tropicbird (Phaethon lepturus) is a species of tropicbird. It is the smallest of three closely related seabirds of the tropical oceans and smallest member of the order Phaethontiformes. It is found in the tropical Atlantic, western Pacific and Indian Oceans. It also breeds on some Caribbean islands, and a few pairs have started nesting recently on Little Tobago, joining the red-billed tropicbird colony. In addition to the tropical Atlantic, it nests as far north as Bermuda, where it is locally called a "longtail".
Folklore
In the Pacific, the ancient Chamorro people called the white-tailed tropicbird utak or itak, and believed that when it screamed over a house it meant that someone would soon die or that an unmarried girl was pregnant. Its call would kill anyone who didn't believe in it.
Chamorro fishermen would find schools of fish by watching them
