ANATOMY OF BIRDS
GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION
MIGRATIONS OF BIRDS
CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS
LIZARD-TAILED BIRD
AMERICAN TOOTHED-BIRDS
THE OSTRICHES
THE RHEAS
EMEUS AND CASSOWARIES
THE TINAMOUS
THE KIWIS
THE PENGUINS
LOONS AND GREBES
ALBATROSSES & PETRELS
STORK-LIKE BIRDS
GOOSE-LIKE BIRDS
FALCON-LIKE BIRDS
FOWL-LIKE BIRDS
CRANE-LIKE BIRDS
PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
CUCKOO-LIKE BIRDS
THE ROLLER-LIKE BIRDS
SPARROW-LIKE BIRDS
Birds and Birding's Guide to:
Watching THE PLOVER-LIKE BIRDS
THE GULLS AND THEIR ALLIES
Common Noddy
The best-known species is the Common Noddy (A. stolidus), which is found practically throughout the world in suitable intertropical or subtropical situations, often breeding in colonies of vast size, and in some cases, as on the Tortugas, building regular nests on low trees, while in other localities they are placed on rocky cliffs. The Pacific Noddy (A. s. ridgwayi) differs in being darker and much less brown than the last.
It is found mainly about Cocos and Socorro Islands, where Mr. Anthony found them nesting in abundance on a small rock, placing the single egg on the bare rock without any attempt at nest building.
About the Galapagos Islands another still darker form occurs (.4. s. galapagoensis), which Snodgross and Heller tell us nests in holes in the face of the cliffs, making a scant nest of a few twigs laid on the bottom of the cavity.
With habits similar to those of the common Noddy, but smaller in size and with the white of the crown abruptly defined against the sooty brown of the neck and upper plumage, is the White-headed Noddy (A. leucocapillus) of the southwestern Pacific, ranging occasionally as far as the Bay of Bengal.
The White Noddy
(Gygis alba), which ranges from the South Atlantic and Indian oceans to Australia and the Pacific islands, is easily distinguished by its snow-white plumage, black bill, and blue hides.
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