Anous stolidus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 143 (1), pp. 3-62 : 34

**BROWN NODDY Anous stolidus #

Local name Man Gonswan (Sansundi).

Status Regular visitor. Common in most New Guinea waters and breeds on small offshore islands (see Bishop & Hacking 2020). On Biak known from a single specimen collected by Hoogerheide at sea north of Biak on 7 July 1954 ( Junge 1956). Recently, regularly observed off southern Biak and Supiori where it often forms mixed flocks with other species of terns, Sula leucogaster and frigatebirds Fregata spp. 6 August 2015: ten near Rani (N. Voaden, eBird checklist S24512191).