brown noddy, common noddy (Anous stolidus) Brown Noddy Anous stolidus, an adult with a chick; Seychelles.
Date 2 May 2005, 13:58:13
Source originally posted to Flickr as DSC05041
Author Phil Guest http://flickr.com/photos/83232559@N00
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Common_Noddy_(Anous_stolidus)_-adult_and_chick.jpg
The brown noddy or common noddy (Anous stolidus) is a seabird in the family Laridae. 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.
Order: Charadriiformes
Family: Laridae
Genus: Anous
Species: Anous stolidus (Linnaeus, 1758)
