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black skimmer
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Black Skimmer
Bizarre looking tern-like bird with oversized bill—lower mandible is much longer than upper mandible. Feeds by flying close to surface of water and dipping its lower mandible into the water "skimming" for small fish. There were over 100 of these roosting on a sand bank with many terns (mainly...- C B Allen
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- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Black Skimmer
Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger niger)- Stanley Jones
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- Category: North America
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Black Skimmer
These birds make great subjects for photographers trying to hone their BIF captures.- dak
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- black skimmer rynchops niger salt marsh birds
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- Category: North America
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Black Skimmer
Black Skimmer (Rhnchops niger niger)- Stanley Jones
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- black skimmer cameron county rhynchops niger niger south padre island south padre island convention center texas usa
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- Category: North America
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Black Skimmer
Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger niger)- Stanley Jones
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- black skimmer cameron county rhynchops niger south padre island south padre island convention center subsp. niger texas usa
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- Category: North America
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Black Skimmer
Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger niger)- Stanley Jones
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- black skimmer cameron county rynchops niger south padre island subsp. niger texas usa
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- Category: North America
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Black Skimmer
A video of the three skimmers and Denniston Creek. These are in breeding plumage. In winter they have a white hind-collar California's first Black Skimmer was found 8 September 1962 at the mouth of the Santa Ana River in Orange County but they soon colonized Southern California and have since...- jmorlan
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- black skimmer california rynchops niger usa video
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- Category: North America
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Black Skimmer
These are in breeding plumage. In winter they have a white hind-collar California's first Black Skimmer was found 8 September 1962 at the mouth of the Santa Ana River in Orange County but they soon colonized Southern California and have since spread north to the San Francisco Bay Area where...- jmorlan
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- black skimmer california rynchops niger usa
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- Category: North America
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Black Skimmer
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- black skimmer cape may new jersey rynchops niger
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- Category: North America
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Black Skimmer
Large group of sea birds at their nesting beaches. Gulls stirred up these Black Skimmers and Terns and they flew by.- RCHines
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- Category: North America
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Black Skimmer
Old shot at Huntington Beach State Park, SC- STEFFRO1
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- Category: North America
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Black Skimmer
Black Skimmer, taken at Bolsa Chica wetland, Orange County California.- dalethorn
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- Category: North America
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black skimmer
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- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Black Skimmer
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- black skimmer chile la serena luis r figueroa. mouth of elqui river rynchops niger
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- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Skimmer
You can see that the sun has just come up and is helping to put some light on the bird. The skimmers had a somewhat unpredictable flight action that would occasionally bring them reasonably close - quite a challenge, in particular since the lack of light meant the balancing act between exposing...- kitefarrago
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- black skimmer pantanal
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- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Skimmer skimming
And there it was, our last day of the holiday. Because the airline had meddled with flight times, instead of being able to spend a leisurely morning along the Trans-Panateira, taking pictures in good light, we were reduced to one stop when it was still pretty dark. All the shots I took first...- kitefarrago
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- black skimmer pantanal
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- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Skimmer not skimming
I was thrilled with yet another lifer species that day - Black Skimmers. Most that I saw were bathing in a small lagoon. Then one of them took off and all of us there had our cameras at the ready to catch him skimming, but he circled around for a while, then landed again. When we looked at our...- Doc Duck
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- black skimmer
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- Category: North America
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Black Skimmer
A Black Skimmer over the water at Pahokee State Park, Pahokee, Florida.- Proavis
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Black Skimmer and Jabiru
Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger subsp. intercedens) and Jabiru (Jabiru mycteria). The Skimmer was asking politely if the Jabiru would leave its private sandbar. Along a sandbar of Ro Piquiri, south of Porto Jofre, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil. Elevation ca. 128 m (420 ft).- Stanley Jones
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Black Skimmer
Black Skimmer (Rynchops niger subsp. intercedens) Along Rio Piquiri on sandbars. Rio Piquiri, south of Porto Jofre, Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil at ca. 110 m (361 ft).- Stanley Jones
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Black Skimmers & company...
I captured this group on the day of the plovers. It looks like these are Dunlin's, and maybe a Least Sandpipper on the right.- tetoneon
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- Category: North America
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Black Skimmer
Another huge bill - and more bizarre too!- nick scarle
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- black skimmer rynchops niger
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- Category: Central & South America & Mexico
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Black Skimmer
Saw a few of the unique birds on Sanibel Island last year. More pics here http://mrcolin2u.zenfolio.com- mrcolin2u
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- Category: North America
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Black Skimmer
This was taken at Bunche Beach State Park, where one can walk quite a distance out into the bay during low tide.- tetoneon
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- Category: North America
