Brown noddy and lesser noddy live side-by-side on Bird island, and can be hard to distinguish from one another, but when you look for these two distinct differences it should be a breeze:
Lesser noddy has more grey on head and in particular between the eye and nostrils/beak (the lore).
Brown noddy has distinctly darker, blackish flight feathers, seen best here in the image 3 and 4, and brown lore.
This ravenous juvenile is perhaps receiving one its very last meals before it has to fend for itself.
It sounds like this:
Last updated on 24 October 2021
