Black Skimmers

Black Skimmers are weirdly shaped birds. Actually, the only part of them that's weirdly shaped are the beaks - the lower mandible is much much longer than the upper one:



The reason is that much longer is because it's used to scoop up fish from the water - in flight:



While they are sized similarly to gulls, their profile is distinctly different:



Here is a Black Skimmer in flight: