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Ian Fulton | profile | all galleries >> African Galleries >> Namibia (and a little of Botswana) 2004 >> Namibia Birds - Individual Species Gallery >> African Skimmer tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Blue Crane | Bokmakierie | African Hoopoe | Black Crake | Bare-cheeked Babbler | African Darter | African Grey Hornbill | African Jacana | African Mourning Dove | African Red-eyed Bulbul | African Skimmer | Bat Hawk | Black-chested Prinia | Cape Glossy Starling | Cape Gull | Carp's Tit | Chestnut-banded Plover | Cinnamon-breasted Rock Bunting | Coqui Francolin | Cormorant Platforms | Crowned Plover | Double-banded Courser | Emerald-spotted Wood Dove | Fork-tailed Drongo | Giant Kingfisher | Golden-tailed Woodpecker | Grassveld Pipit | Greater Flamingo | Greater Kestrel | Green Wood-hoopoe | Green-backed Heron | Grey Lourie | Groundscraper Thrush | Hartlaub's Babbler | Kori Bustard | Kurrichane Thrush | Magpie Shrike | Martial Eagle | Monteiro's Hornbill | Mountain Chat | Namaqua Sandgrouse | Northern Black Korhaan | Pale-winged Starling | Pearl-spotted Owlet | Pied Avocet | Pied Kingfisher | Pririt Batis | Racket-tailed Roller | Red-billed Spurfowl | Rosy-faced Lovebird | Ruppell's Korhaan | Sociable Weaver | Southern Carmine Bee-eater | Southern Masked Weaver | Temminck's Courser | White-fronted Bee-eater

African Skimmer

(rynchops flavirostris)
This is the African member of the Skimmer family which has counterparts in Asia and in the Americas. Like all Skimmers it has a peculiar bill shape with the lower mandible being much longer than the upper. It feeds by flying low over water with its lower mandible just skimming the water surface. These birds were photographed from a boat on the Kavango River near Shamvura Lodge at sunset.
African Skimmer, Kavango River, Namibia
African Skimmer, Kavango River, Namibia
African Skimmer, Kavango River, Namibia
African Skimmer, Kavango River, Namibia
African Skimmer, Kavango River, Namibia
African Skimmer, Kavango River, Namibia
African Skimmer, Kavango River, Namibia
African Skimmer, Kavango River, Namibia
African Skimmer, Kavango River, Namibia
African Skimmer, Kavango River, Namibia
African Skimmer, Kavango River, Namibia
African Skimmer, Kavango River, Namibia