on land are found such non-native birds such as canaries, francolins, mynas, sparrows, and waxbills. sooty terns or "wideawake birds" nest in great seashore lava "fairs". other seabirds include some types of boobies, petrels, and tropicbirds (named "boatswain", pronounced "bo-sun birds", by the inhabitants of the island), white tern, brown noddy, black noddy and ascension frigatebird. the ascension crake became extinct around the beginning of the nineteenth century.