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Black Skimmer

I'm not completely sure why the skimmer's bill has evolved with fine and parallel grooves, but I figure they serve a hydrodynamic function for the bird while it's skimming. Though you can't see it from this profile view, the beak is also razor thin, an adaptation that helps it cut knife through the water as the bird fishes.

Nickerson Beach, Nassau County, New York, 8/8/19
Canon 600mm f/4 IS II on EOS 1DX Mark II
1/3200 at f/7.1, ISO 640

  • Heermann's Gull
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Black Skimmer
  • Red Junglefowl
  • Kea (NZ endemic)
  • Hooded Merganser with Crayfish
  • Variable Oystercatcher (NZ endemic)
  • Peregrine Falcon (male)
  • Long-billed Curlew
  • Common Loon
  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • Wood Duck
  • Pomarine Jaeger
  • Wood Thrush
  • Burrowing Owl
  • Marbled Godwit
  • Hooded Merganser with Crayfish
  • Wilson's Snipe
  • Redhead
  • Grasshopper Sparrow
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