Tag Archives: lesser noddy

May
20
2013

Sea bird Season has just started

With the influx of Lesser and Brown Noddy’s, comes the preparation for the 2013 sea bird season! We have started preparing our Sooty Tern breeding colony site for their scouting and arrival in late May/early June. We saw a 200% increase in numbers last year to the previous year just by clearing and improving their nesting sites. [...]

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Sep
06
2012

The wind is still blowing, but the rain has come!

The first substantial rains have finally hit Cousine Island and everyone is rejoicing. All the marine birds are flying high and shaking about in the rain, the skinks are lapping up the little pools of water formed in the cracks of the granite rock and the Figs are showing a hint of a new leaf at the [...]

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Jul
13
2012

Sea birds and turtles keeping us busy!

The lesser and Brown Noddies have been gradually increasing in number for the last two months. The majority of nests are completed and 90% of them are incubating at present. We just love watching their silly antics involving the whole nesting procedure. Squabbles over nesting sites and over the ‘perfect leaf’ which five Noddy’s decide [...]

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Jun
08
2012

The Noddy’s are back

The island is nearly full! Well, all the trees are nearly full. The volume around the island has definitely picked up and there is squawking and fighting for leaves at every corner. Wow, how lucky we feel every day to be able to witness such a miracle of nature on our doorsteps. How perfectly timed nature is with the [...]

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Apr
12
2012

our annual visitors

The Island is beginning to pick up volume with the influx of Lesser and Brown Noddy’s. Both the North Rock and South Rock on each tip of the island each have 40-50 Brown Noddy’s sunning themselves on a daily basis. The Lesser Noddy’s prefer the corrugated iron roofs. When we are hovering under the shade [...]

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