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Anous stolidus

Brown Noddy

Speciesaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 212629ITIS 176941key itis:176941
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2026-08-05: worms_id 212629 via WoRMS TSN crosswalk (status accepted)

calcofi:seabirds

The brown noddy, common noddy or noddy tern is a seabird in the family Laridae. The largest of the noddies, it can be told from the closely related black noddy by its larger size and plumage, which is dark brown rather than black.W CalCOFI holds 2 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1996 and 1996.R

2
observations
2
records
2
sampling events
1996
years
1
datasets
45 cm
max length
Anous stolidus (Brown Noddies) nesting at the Tubbataha Reef National Park in the Philippines. Photographed in 2012 by Gregg Yan.
Photo · Gregg Yan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · commons

Observed in 1 dataset
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One row per dataset, and beside it one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

Ways inExplorerdb-queryERDDAPRPythonThis page as JSON

Code and endpoints ERDDAP · R · Python · JSON
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Seabirds & Marine Mammals table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/farallon_bird-mammal.html?&taxon_key=%22itis:176941%22

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.21, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it 45 cm max
Brown Noddy45 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · sealifebase

Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

Lineage 11 ranks · Animalia to Anous
Credits silhouette · photo · text · length
Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF · eBird

WikidataiNaturalistGBIFeBird

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.21

Cite the release, v2026.10.21; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗