First record of Brown Noddy Anous stolidus for Guinea-Bissau

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by  Jan Van Der Winder

First record of Brown Noddy Anous stolidus
for Guinea-Bissau
Jan van der Winder}!1and Hamilton Monteirob
Premiere mention du Noddi brunAnousstolidus pour la Guinee-Bissau. Le 19 janvier 2006, un
Noddi brun Anous stolidus adulte a ete decouvert et photographie sur File d’Acapa Imbone
(11°00’N 16°04’W), dans l’archipel des Bijagos, Guinee-Bissau. L’oiseau etait en train de se
reposer au bord d’une colonie de Sternes caspiennes Sterna caspia. Ceci constitue la premiere
donnee pour le pays de cette espece, qui est occasionnelle le long des cotes Ouest africaines en
dehors de la saison de reproduction.
n January 2006, during a waterbird census of brown with a white cap fading to grey on the rear
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major coastal wetlands from Mauritania to crown and nape, and had a relatively heavy bill.
Sierra Leone, coordinated by Wetlands These features identified it as an adult Brown
International, we visited the Bijagos Archipelago Noddy Anous stolidus. Black Noddy A. minutus,
in Guinea-Bissau. On 19 January, we were on which also is a vagrant to West African coasts, has
Acapa Imbone Island (11°00’N 16°04’W), south darker, more blackish plumage, a more contrasting
of Orango Island, to census the Caspian Tern and extensive white cap, and a more slender bill
&
Sterna caspia breeding colony. At the edge of the (Borrow Demey 2001).
colony we discovered a resting noddy Anous sp. In this region, Brown Noddy is a vagrant away
The bird could be approached down to 20 m and from its breeding grounds (mainly the Tinhosas
was photographed (Fig. 1). It was entirely dark Islands and Annobon) in the eastern Gulf of
Figure 1. Brown NoddyAnousstolidusin a CaspianTern Sternacaspiacolony, Acapa Imbone Island, Bijagos Archipelago,
Guinea-Bissau, 19January2006 (Jan van derWinden)
Noddi brunAnousstolidusdans une colonie de Sternes caspiennes Sternacaspia, lie d’Acapa Imbone, Archipel des Bijagos,
Guinee-Bissau, 19 janvier2006 (Jan van derWinden)
106-BullABC Vol 15No 1 (2008) First recordofBrown Noddyfor Guinea-Bissau: van der Winden &Monteiro
Guinea. Incidental records in West Africa are References
available from The Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Borrow, N. & Demey, R. 2001. Birds ofWestern Africa.
Nigeria, Gabon and Bioko (Borrow & Demey London, UK: Christopher Helm.
2001). It is, however, not mentioned in the recent Dodman T., Barlow, C., Sa, J. & Robertson, P. 2004.
updated checklist of Guinea-Bissau (Dodman et Important Bird Areas in Guinea-Bissau. Dakar:
al. 2004). The record reported here is therefore the Wetlands International & Bissau: Gabinete de
first for the country. A Brown Noddy (the same Planifica^ao Costeira / ODZH.
&
individual?) was observed at the same site on 24 Veen, J. Dallmeijer, H. 2007. Le suivi de la
May 2006 (Veen & Dallmeijer 2007). biodiversite des poissons le long du littoral de
l’Afrique de l’Ouest, utilisant les oiseaux marins
Acknowledgements comme indicateurs (2004). Compte-rendu d’une
Joaozinho Sa and Tim Dodman (Wetlands session de formation realisee dans 1’Archipelago dos
Bijagos, en Guinee Bissau, du 16 au 27 mai 2006.
International) and Bernd de Bruijn
Unpubl. rep. to Wetlands International, Dakar.
(Vogelbescherming Nederland) are thanked for
their support in organising and funding the "Bureau Waardenburg, POBox365, 4100A]Culemborg,
Guinea-Bissau census. Anton Costa, Januario G. Netherlands. E-mail:[email protected]
Silva, Fay Djedjo, Bacar Coma and Frank Willems bWetlands International!Gabinete de Planificagdo
joined the census. Tim Dodman and Ron Demey Costeira, Apartado 23, 1031 Codex-Bissau, Guinea-
commented on a draft ofthis note and kindly sug- Bissau. E-mail:[email protected]
gested improvements.
Received 7 October 2007; revision accepted 18
November 2007.
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