The Brown Noddy is a tropical seabird with a worldwide distribution, ranging from the Hawaiian Islands (
USA) to the Tuamotu Archipelago (
French Polynesia) and
Australia in the Pacific Ocean, including colonies off the Pacific coast of north-west South and Central America, from the Red Sea to the
Seychelles and Australia in the Indian Ocean including south-east Asia and in the Caribbean to Tristan da Cunha (
St Helena to UK) in the Atlantic Ocean including a colony off the coast of
Cameroon. Some colonies are also present in the sub-tropics with individuals from these colonies wintering in the tropics (del Hoyo
et al. 1996).
Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: BirdLife International 2012.
Anous stolidus. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <
www.iucnredlist.org>
