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Where does the Black Noddy live?

Anous minutus has 43,837 records in 64 countries and territories, from 1842 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Black Noddy
Black Noddy — Photo: Gregg Yan · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesLaridaeAnous

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 13,405
Australia 12,565
Palau 5,436
Norfolk Island 2,100
French Polynesia 1,684
United States Minor Outlying Islands 1,628
Northern Mariana Islands 1,061
Fiji 847
Papua New Guinea 641
Saint Helena 411
Micronesia 378
Brazil 367
Tonga 328
Marshall Islands 321
Taiwan 311
New Caledonia 283
Solomon Islands 263
Kiribati 212
Cook Islands 184
New Zealand 174
American Samoa 165
Guam 155
São Tomé & Príncipe 97
Samoa 96
Indonesia 81
Philippines 81
Aruba 79
Pitcairn 73
Costa Rica 52
Mexico 47
France 29
Venezuela 29
Panama 24
Colombia 23
Wallis & Futuna 22
ZZ 18
Japan 15
St Vincent & the Grenadines 14
Honduras 13
Vanuatu 13

Showing the top 40 of 64 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.