Brown Noddy

How to identify

Field marks

1. Feathers dark chocolate-brown
2. Crown and forehead pale gray or white
3. A single incomplete white eye-ring
4. Tail long and wedge-shaped; legs and feet dark

Similar species

Black Noddy

Brown Noddy is larger than Black Noddy, with dark brown rather than black feathers.

Where and when it's recorded

Most records: U.S. Outlying Islands, French Polynesia, Seychelles

Brown Noddy has been recorded at 365 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 79 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Midway Atoll – Water Catchment AreaU.S. Outlying Islands806 records
2. Midway Atoll NWR – Sand IslandU.S. Outlying Islands511 records
3. Española – Punta SuárezEcuador500 records

Countries and regions with the most records

U.S. Outlying IslandsFrench PolynesiaSeychellesPalauEcuadorNorthern Mariana IslandsTrinidad & TobagoNorfolk Island

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The brown noddy, common noddy or noddy tern (Anous stolidus) is a seabird in the family Laridae. The largest of the noddies, it can be told from the closely related black noddy by its larger size and plumage, which is dark brown rather than black. The brown noddy is a tropical seabird with a worldwide distribution, ranging from Hawaii to the Tuamotu Archipelago and Australia in the Pacific Ocean, from the Red Sea to the Seychelles and Australia in the Indian Ocean and in the Caribbean to Tristan da Cunha in the Atlantic Ocean.

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