Birds · La Saladita, Guerrero

Brown Noddy

Anous stolidus

Spanish: Charrán-bobo café

Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus)
Photographed by santiagob1986 on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC

The brown noddy or common noddy (Anous stolidus) 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. The brown noddy is a tropical seabird with a worldwide distribution, ranging from Hawaii to the Tuamotu Archipelago and Australia in the Pacific Ocean, from the Red Sea to the Seychelles and Australia...

TaxonomyAves › Charadriiformes › Laridae
Local records9 research-grade observations within about 50 km of La Saladita (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones)
Global records5,160 on iNaturalist
Most recent records2013 – 2021
Months of the 8 most recent records
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Recent local sightings

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Cite as: “Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/anous-stolidus/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.