Saturday, October 10, 2015

COMMON NODDY

Photographed at Portland Road, northern Queensland October 2015
702            COMMON NODDY           Anous stolidus

Australia       (544)

38-45 cm, wingspan c. 85 cm. Found over tropical, subtropical seas; cays, reefs, bouys and piles. range: in island colonies, some huge, from Abrolhos group (WA), n to Timor Sea; Torres Strait, Coral Sea; s. on Gt Barrier Reef to Bunker Group; also Norfolk Is., Lord Howe Is. 





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