Brown Noddy sighted 75 miles southeast of the outer Charleston Jetties - August 5, 2006.

Click the following image to see a larger version. The image is a frame that was extracted from a video clip of the Brown Noddy.

The Brown Noddy was patrolling a sargassum "weed line" along the western edge of the Gulf Stream, adjacent to a significant deep water upwelling.

Also present nearby were: Black-capped Petrels, Cory's Shearwaters, Audubon's Shearwaters, Wilson's Storm-Petrels, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel, Bridled Terns and Sooty Terns.

Click the following image to play a video clip of the Brown Noddy. For best performance, (right-click) on the image and choose "Save File As" to save the video to your computer's hard drive. Then play the video from your hard drive.

* - disclaimer: this video is for documentation purposes. Its quality suffers from two drawbacks: at-sea videotaping difficulties and degraded quality from capture-card conversion to Internet-accessible format. We suggest repeated use of the 'pause' button in your MPEG player to show identifying characteristics such as the bird's white cap.

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