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).