Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
African Skimmer
Rynchops flavirostris
The African Skimmer (Rynchops flavirostris) is a 164 g wetland bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Gulls, Terns, Skimmers
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Weight
- 164 g
- Habitat
- Wetland
- Diet
- Vertebrates, fish and carrion
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 22
