A black skimmer in flight over Long Island.

Black Skimmer

Jones Beach, New York

A perfect dorsal-view pass from one of the thousands of black skimmers that populate the beach colonies along Long Island's coast. The skimmers come there in the summer to breed, which they do in groups of hundreds of birds. There's safety and survival in numbers, which is a good strategy when the black-backed gulls are always watching for unattended chicks.

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