American dipper Cinclus mexicanus
Identification Tips:
Length: 5.75 inches
Slender bill
Slate-gray body with browner head
Frequently bobs very short tail
Pale legs
Sexes similar
Juvenile paler ...
American Dipper
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AMERICAN DIPPER FACTS
Description
The American Dipper is a stocky gray bird with short neck and thin bill. It has white feathers on the eyelids that are noticeable when the bird blinks. It has long legs and a short tail.
American Dippers are extremely rare in Weaselhead or North/South Glenmore Park.
AMERICAN DIPPER.
[American Dipper.]
CINCLUS AMERICANUS, Swains.
[Now known as Cinclus mexicanus.] ...
American Dipper
The American Dipper has strong legs and like other dippers,
special oil glands which enable them to adapt to a watery
habitat.
Other cavities used for nesting include holes in dirt banks, abandoned swallow (Hirundae) nests, American dipper (Cinclus mexicanus) nests, hollow fenceposts, mailboxes, holes in buildings, and nest boxes [29].
Cinclus mexicanus - American Dipper
Troglodytidae - Wrens
Troglodytes
Troglodytes troglolytes - Wren
Troglodytes aedon - House Wren (photo)
Prunellidae - Accentors
Prunella
Prunella modularis - Dunnock (photo) ...
There are four species: the brownish gray North American dipper, Cinclus mexicanus, called also water ouzel, found from Alaska to Panama; the white-headed dipper of the Andes; the European common dipper, with a white throat and breast, ...
The White-throated Dipper and American Dipper are also known in Britain and America, respectively, as the Water Ouzel (sometimes spelt "ousel") - ouzel originally meant the unrelated but superficially similar Blackbird (Old English osle).
Where a stream flows swiftly over a gravel bottom, you may see a charcoal-colored American Dipper skittering along the surface, diving suddenly to the bottom, and dashing underwater over the sand and rocks in a search for aquatic insect life.
 See also: Dipper, Ouzel, Wren, Sparrow, Swallow
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