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Anous minutus worcestri
The White-capped or Black Noddy is a seabird from the tern family. It resembles the closely related Brown or Common Noddy, but is smaller with darker plumage, a whiter cap, a longer, straighter beak and shorter tail. Numbering about 8,000, the Philippine subspecies (A. minutus worcestri) lives exclusively in and around the Tubbataha Reefs in the central Sulu Sea.
Islands in and around the Sulu Sea, Palawan. Images taken at Tubbataha South Islet, Palawan.
Images by Gregg Yan / WWF.
Spotted on Apr 15, 2012
Submitted on Sep 25, 2013
5 Comments
Please consider adding this spotting to the Animal Architecture mission at http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8082... since the middle picture has a noddy on the nest.
Beautiful bird, great photos!
Thanks guys! = )
Nice spotting Gregg! Welcome to Project Noah!
Nice spotting!