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White-capped Noddy

Anous minutus worcestri

Photo by GreggYan
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Field Notes

Description:

The White-capped or Black Noddy is a seabird from the tern family. It resembles the closely related Brown or Common Noddy, but is smaller with darker plumage, a whiter cap, a longer, straighter beak and shorter tail.

Numbering about 8,000, the Philippine subspecies (A. minutus worcestri) lives exclusively in and around the Tubbataha Reefs in the central Sulu Sea.

Habitat:

Islands in and around the Sulu Sea, Palawan. Images taken at Tubbataha South Islet, Palawan.

Notes:

Images by Gregg Yan / WWF.

Reference Links:

Black Noddy

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Comments (5)
Ava T-B
Please consider adding this spotting to the Animal Architecture mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082378 since the middle picture has a noddy on the nest.
staccyh
Beautiful bird, great photos!

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PublishedSeptember 25, 2013

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