Gulls, Terns, Skimmers

Black Noddy

Anous minutus

The Black Noddy (Anous minutus) is a 112 g ocean-going bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.

Family
Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
Order
Charadriiformes
Weight
112 g
Habitat
Marine
Diet
Vertebrates, fish and carrion
Migration
Partial migrant
Countries recorded
31

Recorded in United States, Australia, Palau, NF, Fr. Polynesia, UM, MP, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Micronesia, Brazil, SH, MH, Tonga, Taiwan, New Caledonia, Solomon Is., Kiribati, CK, New Zealand, AS, Guam, Costa Rica, Sao Tome and Principe, Samoa, Indonesia, Philippines, AW, PN, France, Mexico.

Where to see it: Nukunonu Village (Tokelau); Auto selected -7.12578, 177.67097 (Tuvalu); Airfield Survey (United States Minor Outlying Islands); Nearshore waters (0-2mi/3km) - James Bay to Egg Island (Saint Helena); Tabuaeran (Fanning Island) (Kiribati).

Photo: Bettina Arrigoni, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons