Brown Noddy

Description:

Nesting; Dark sooty brown with pale grayish-white crown; wedge shaped tail; slender black bill. This bill appears to be grey/blue

Habitat:

Coastal and oceanic islands during breeding season; open ocean at other times. I buff egg, spotted with lilac and brown, in a stick nest lined with seaweed and often bits of shell and coral, placed on rocks, in trees, or hushes, or on exposed coral reefs.

Notes:

This Brown Noddy was nesting on a exposed coral reef off the island of Spanish Wells, Bahamas.