A Quick Identification Guide to
St Helena’s Seabirds
pale cap
w79-86cm
w66-72cm
w42-45cm
slender bill
Black Noddy
Brown Noddy
chocolate brown colour
smaller than brown noddies
Madeiran
Storm
Petrel
St. Helena’s smallest
brown/black
upper parts
black wing
edge
seabird
w140cm
black tail
tip
w150cm
w50cm
Juvenile
Fairy Tern
Masked Booby
w86-94cm
white rump
Brown Booby
pure white plumage
dark brown spotted
with white
long white tail feathers
scarlet bill
w99-106cm
forked tail
Sooty Tern
short tail
feathers
Juvenile
pale
wing
bar
makes a loud
“wideawake” call
yellow bill
Juvenile
w65-70cm
Red-billed Tropicbird
heavily barred
w122-127cm
Bulwer’s Petrel juvenile
w96-114cm
Juvenile
slender dark petrel with a
small head
Arctic Skua
pointed tail
feathers
medium sized gull like seabird
very variable plumage
blunt twisted tail
feathers
Pomarine Skua
Marine Section,
EMD. Tel: 2270
w=wingspan
bulky gull like seabird with a deepchested appearance