Brown Noddy
Anous stolidus
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers
Photo: Charles J. Sharp · Wikimedia · CC-BY-SA 4.0 (licence)
Call and song
Recording 1 · call, duet
Recording 2
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About the Brown Noddy
Dark-bodied tern of tropical offshore waters, rarely seen from mainland. Breeds in colonies on rocky and sandy offshore islets. Sometimes found with offshore feeding flocks of boobies and other terns. Feeds by picking from the surface, not plunge-diving like most terns. Adult solidly dark brown with white cap. White limited to the forehead on immature.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 122 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- American Samoa
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Aruba
- Ashmore and Cartier Islands
- Australia
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Brazil
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- China
- Christmas Island
- Clipperton Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Cook Islands
- Coral Sea Islands
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Fiji
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- Gabon
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guam
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- High Seas
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Madagascar
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Martinique
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Mexico
- Micronesia
- Montserrat
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Nauru
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Peru
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Islands
- Puerto Rico
- Réunion
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Martin (French part)
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- São Tomé and Príncipe
- Saudi Arabia
- Seychelles
- Sint Maarten
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- Suriname
- Taiwan
- Tanzania
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
- United Arab Emirates
- United States
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Uruguay
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
- Virgin Islands (British)
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
- Wallis and Futuna
- Yemen
