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Where does the Brown Noddy live?

Anous stolidus has 93,760 records in 133 countries and territories, from 1699 to 2026. Most records come from Ecuador.

Brown Noddy
Brown Noddy β€” Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 Β· source
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
Ecuador 22,566
Australia 19,335
United States 11,903
French Polynesia 3,613
Taiwan 3,196
United States Minor Outlying Islands 2,563
Palau 2,077
Costa Rica 1,863
Northern Mariana Islands 1,474
Seychelles 1,312
Mexico 1,238
Puerto Rico 1,109
Panama 1,011
Norfolk Island 744
Christmas Island 667
Indonesia 659
Guadeloupe 651
RΓ©union 588
Trinidad & Tobago 573
Samoa 572
Saint Helena 555
Guam 543
Micronesia 518
Brazil 512
Grenada 506
Japan 494
Bahamas 482
Cook Islands 467
Papua New Guinea 462
Fiji 445
Mauritius 366
Aruba 358
Tonga 345
American Samoa 314
India 311
Cocos Islands 309
British Indian Ocean Territory 304
United Arab Emirates 293
Kiribati 290
New Caledonia 288

Showing the top 40 of 133 places.

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