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I've been a fly tier for 40 years and the most important thing to increase the durability of your fly or bucktail is to saturate the thread and hair at the head with superglue. It is a trick I learned doing saltwater flies some 20+ years ago. Once the superglue sets up it doesn't make any difference what type of thread you are using. The bucktail isn't going to fall apart. After that you can use head cement, envirotex or whatever to make it shiny and pretty.
Thread size is irrelevent to the durability of the bucktail, but it takes a lot more wraps of small thread to build up the head than, for instance, rod wrapping thread. Go to your favorite fly material supplier and they will have heavy fly tying thread designed for large flies that lays flat, and makes a nice smooth wrap. Rod wrapping thread works OK, but is not as attractive. It does go on quickly and build up fast.
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