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Skimmers
Order:
Charadriiformes
Family: Rynchopidae
3 species
in tropical and subtropical waters worldwide;
40 cm; like gulls but bill, especially lower mandible, strongly laterally compressed;
grab small fish from water surface while flying.
Courtship not well known; 4-5 variable colored eggs in shallow scrape