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Anous stolidus (Brown noddy,
Common noddy)
Grootbruinseeswael [Afrikaans]; Grootbruinsterretjie
[Afrikaans]; Noddy [Dutch]; Noddi brun [French]; Noddiseeschwalbe
[German]; Tinhosa-grande [Portuguese]
Life
> Eukaryotes >
Opisthokonta
> Metazoa (animals) >
Bilateria >
Deuterostomia > Chordata >
Craniata > Vertebrata (vertebrates) > Gnathostomata (jawed
vertebrates) > Teleostomi (teleost fish) > Osteichthyes (bony fish) > Class:
Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned
fish) > Stegocephalia (terrestrial
vertebrates) > Tetrapoda
(four-legged vertebrates) > Reptiliomorpha > Amniota >
Reptilia (reptiles) >
Romeriida > Diapsida > Archosauromorpha > Archosauria >
Dinosauria
(dinosaurs) > Saurischia > Theropoda (bipedal predatory dinosaurs) >
Coelurosauria > Maniraptora > Aves
(birds) > Order: Charadriiformes
> Family: Laridae > Genus: Anous
Distribution and habitat
Occurs across the tropical oceans of the world, breeding on
oceanic islands before dispersing across the sea. It is a rare vagrant to the
coast of southern Mozambique and KwaZulu-Natal.
References
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Hockey PAR, Dean WRJ and Ryan PG 2005. Roberts
- Birds of southern Africa, VIIth ed. The Trustees of the John Voelcker
Bird Book Fund, Cape Town.
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