Brown Noddy

Noddies are found over warm ocean water, where they feed by swooping or gently dipping to the surface. In Java Island the Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus) is more common than Black Noddy (Anous minutus). Has been recorded in Ujung Kulon National Park, Jakarta Bay, and Karimun Jawa National Park.

Identify: Medium size, dark, brown bird. Adults have ashy-white forehead and crown sharply demarcated from black lores, merging evenly into gray nape. Long, narrow, wedged-shaped tail. Bill is black and stouter than the black noddy. Legs/feet dark brown. Weigh twice as much as black noddies. Young noddies have a more restricted white cap on forehead than adults.

 Brown Noddy Feeding habits:

Location: Jakarta Bay (North Jakarta) and Karimun Jawa National Park (Central Java)
Photo were taken during Christmas Island Frigatebird survey at Jakarta Bay and during Dolphin Survey at Karimun Jawa National Park.

Bird List Karimun Jawa National Park

1. White-breasted Woodswallow Artamus leucorynchus
2. Pacific Swallow Hirundo tahitica
3. Cave Swiftlet Collocalia linchi
4. Common Iora Aegithina tiphia
5. Mangrove Whistler Pachycephala cinerea
6. Golden-bellied Gerygone Gerygone sulphurea
7. Ashy Tailorbird Orthotomus ruficeps
8. Common Tailorbird Orthotomus sutorius
9. Javan Munia Lonchura leucogastroides
10. Scaly-breasted Munia Lonchura punctulata
11. Brown-throated Sunbird Anthreptes malacensis
12. Olive-backed Sunbird Cinnyris jugularis
13. Copper-throated Sunbird Nectarinia calcostetha
14. Lemon-bellied White-eye Zosterops chloris
15. Yellow-vented Bulbul Pycnonotus goiavier
16. Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus
17. Lesser Coucal Centropus bengalensis
18. Pied Imperial Pigeon Ducula bicolor
19. Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus
20. Pink-necked Green Pigeon Treron vernans
21. Green Imperial Pigeon Ducula aenea
22. Scarlet-headed Flowerpecker Dicaeum trochileum trochileum
23. White-breasted Waterhen Amaurornis phoenicurus
24. Little Heron Butorides striata
25. Pacific Reef Egret Egretta sacra sacra
26. Black-naped Tern Sterna sumatrana
27. Bridled Tern Sterna anaethetus
28. Lesser Frigatebird Fregata ariel
29. Great Frigatebird Fregata minor
30. Black Noddy Anous minutus
31. Brown Noddy Anous stolidus
32. Great Crested Tern Sterna bergii
33. White-bellied Sea Eagle Haliaeetus leucogaster
34. Collared Kingfisher Todiramphus chloris
35. Swinhoe's Storm-petrel Oceanodroma monorhis