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Rynchops flavirostris

[edit] Identification

18cm

• Black back, hindneck, and crown
• White forehead cheeks and underparts
• Yellow-tipped orange beak. The lower mandible is longer than the upper one
• White short forked tail
• Very long wings
• Bright red legs

Photo by Chris van Rooyen
Caprivi, Namibia, October 2006

[edit] Distribution

Widespread throughout sub-Saharan Africa:
Western Africa: Mauritania, Senegambia, Senegal, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Angola
Eastern Africa: Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi
Southern Africa: Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa
Middle East: Arabian Peninsula, Yemen

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic.

[edit] Habitat

Wide tropical rivers with sandbanks, lakeshores, and coastal lagoons.

[edit] Behaviour

The diet includes fish.

[edit] References

1. Avibase
2. Wikipedia

• List of references

[edit] External Links