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skimmer

  (skĭm'ər)

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skimmer

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1. One that skims, such as a large perforated spoon used in skimming liquids.
2. A light, usually straw hat with a stiff wide brim and a flat shallow crown.
3. 1. Any of several chiefly coastal birds of the genus Rynchops, having long narrow wings and a long bill with a longer lower mandible for skimming the water's surface for food.
   2. A black skimmer.

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A metal kitchen utensil consisting of a handle attached to either a perforated disk or a shallow bowl-shaped wire mesh. Skimmers are used to lift foods out of hot liquids or to remove unwanted surface fat and foamy residue from soups, etc.

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Skimmers
Black Skimmer
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Charadriiformes Family: Rhynchopidae Bonaparte, 1838 Genus: Rhynchops Linnaeus, 1758
Species
Black Skimmer (Rhynchops niger) African Skimmer (Rhynchops flavirostris) Indian Skimmer (Rhynchops albicollis)

The Skimmers, Rhynchopidae, are a small family of tern-like birds in the order Charadriiformes, which also includes the waders, gulls and auks. The family is comprised of three species found in South Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

The three species have an elongated lower mandible. They feed by flying low over the water surface with the lower mandible skimming the water for small fish.

They are tropical and subtropical species which lay 3-6 eggs on sandy beaches. The female incubates the eggs. Because of the species' restricted nesting habitat the three species are vulnerable to disturbance at their nesting sites. One species, the Indian Skimmer, is considered vulnerable by the IUCN due to this as well as destruction and degradation of the lakes and rivers it uses for feeding.

See Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy for an alternative classification. The genus name Rynchops is often spelled Rhynchops (as in some of the later editions of the works of Linnaeus), though the first version is taxonomically valid, being Linnaeus's original spelling.

References

• BirdLife International (2007) Species factsheet: Rynchops albicollis. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 20/5/2007

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Rhynchopidae

• Skimmer videos on the Internet Bird Collection

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - skummer, skummeske, flad stråhat

Nederlands (Dutch)
schuimspaan, afromer

Français (French)
n. - (Culin) écumoire, bec en ciseaux, écumoire

Deutsch (German)
n. - Schaumkelle

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ξαφριστήρι, ξαφριστής, επίπεδο ψάθινο καπέλο, (καθομ.) φοροφυγάς

Italiano (Italian)
schiumarola, lancia, abito senza maniche

Português (Portuguese)
n. - escumadeira (f), chapéu (m) de palha

Русский (Russian)
шумовка, женская шляпа с низкой тульей и широкими полями, молочный сепаратор, устройство для собирания пролитой нефти с поверхности воды, глиссер, гидросамолет, дорожный струг, цельнокроенное полуприлегающее платье без рукавов

Español (Spanish)
n. - espumadera

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - hålslev, skumslev, platt halmhatt, motorbåt

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
撇取浮皮的器具, 网杓, 大略阅读的人

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 撇取浮皮的器具, 網杓, 大略閱讀的人

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 더껑이를 걷어내는 도구, 대충 훑어 읽는 사람, 스키머 (소매가 없고 목이 둥근 간이복)

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 網じゃくし, ハサミアジサシ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مقشدة, قبعه قش مسطحه ألذروة‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מקפה, כף-קיפוי, עוף-ים‬

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