Ring Ouzel
Most years, pioneer ouzels have arrived well before the end of March. Unlike the blackbird, the ring ouzel is usually wary and wild, shunning the neighbourhood of human habitation.
Ring Ouzel (Turdus torquatus)
This female Ring Ouzel was hunting for food for its young along the side of the dirt road in the upper Findhorn Valley. It was catching worms and then flying back up the slope to where I presume its nest was.
Ring Ouzel
Thrushes
The Ring Ouzel (Turdus torquatus) is a European member of the thrush family Turdidae.
Ring ouzels can be found in upland areas of Scotland, northern England, north west Wales and Dartmoor.
Ouzel, Ring Turdus torquatus Found: Europe
Photographed by: 1) Andreas Trepte 2) Mark Putney ...
Ring Ouzel
The juveniles are reddish-brown (rufous) with paler spotting that is similar to that of the adult female but more spotted and redder. After the juvenile female moults, late summer to autumn, she is indistinguishable from an older female.
The American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus), also known as a Water Ouzel, is a stocky dark grey bird with a head sometimes tinged with brown, and white feathers on the eyelids cause the eyes to flash white as the bird blinks. It is 16.
Turdus torquatus - Ring Ouzel
Turdusmerula - European Blackbird (photo)
Turdus obscurus - Eyebrowed Thrush
Turdus naumanni - Dusky Thrush
Turdus ruficollis - Black-throated Thrush
Turdus philomelos - Song Thrush
Sylviidae - Warblers ...
Of Whiskey Jacks and Water Ouzels
There's a reason why the name of Linnaeus is still spoken with respect more than two centuries after his death. Giving organisms standard names allowed precise communication across cultures and languages.
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, ...
Dippers are also called water ouzels.
Picture American Dipper
Nests are composed of an outer shell of moss and small amounts
of interwoven grass and roots, with an inner, cup-like lining
of dry, coarse grass.
Glossy-black Thrush Turdus serranus
Described by: Tschudi (1844)
Alternate common name(s): Black Ouzel
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
CINCLUS PALLASII, Bonap. Amer. Orn., vol. ii. p. 173.
AMERICANUS, American Dipper, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii.p. 173.
BLACK WATER-OUZEL or DIPPER, Nutt. Man., vol. ii. p. 358.
 See also: Ring Ouzel, Blackbird, Dipper, Thrushe, Perch
  
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