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Species: Cinclus cinclus.
Few birds are strictly confined to one habitat type as the Dipper. In summer, it is essentially a bird of fast-flowing, but often tree-lined rivers in uplands. It remains there if it can in winter, but hard weather may drive it lower down or even to the edge of large lakes and reservoirs or the sea coast. It is quite at home swimming and diving, or simply walking into the water and disappearing underneath as it searches for food. Its springy, bouncing movements and call are also distinctive. Info: RSPB.
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We spent a morning watching these super birds.
Powys, Wales.
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Most years I photograph my favourite bird,the Dipper on Exmoor but this year i've had to concentrate on my local Dippers and have so far found 4 territories on the River Exe and other local rivers and streams all close to home.
This pair are feeding their young at the moment in a nest under an old wooden footbridge.
Taken in Devon this morning
Dipper - Cinclus Cinclus
aka Water Ouzel
Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater.
They have a characteristic bobbing motion when perched beside the water, giving them their name. While under water, they are covered by a thin, silvery film of air, due to small bubbles being trapped on the surface of the plumage.
Dippers are found in suitable freshwater habitats in the highlands of the Americas, Europe and Asia. In Africa they are only found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. They inhabit the banks of fast-moving upland rivers with cold, clear waters, though, outside the breeding season, they may visit lake shores and sea coasts.
The high haemoglobin concentration in their blood gives them a capacity to store oxygen greater than that of other birds, allowing them to remain underwater for thirty seconds or more, whilst their basal metabolic rate is approximately one-third slower than typical terrestrial passerines of similar mass. One small population wintering at a hot spring in Suntar-Khayata Mountains of Siberia feeds underwater when air temperatures drop below −55 °C (−67 °F).
Dippers are completely dependent on fast-flowing rivers with clear water, accessible food and secure nest-sites. They may be threatened by anything that affects these needs such as water pollution, acidification and turbidity caused by erosion. River regulation through the creation of dams and reservoirs, as well as channelization, can degrade and destroy dipper habitat.
Dippers are also sometimes hunted or otherwise persecuted by humans for various reasons. The Cyprus race of the white-throated dipper is extinct. In the Atlas Mountains dippers are claimed to have aphrodisiacal properties. In parts of Scotland and Germany, until the beginning of the 20th century, bounties were paid for killing dippers because of a misguided perception that they were detrimental to fish stocks through predation on the eggs and fry of salmonids.
Population:
UK breeding:
6,200-18,700 pairs
Scientific name: Cinchus cinclus.
The chocolate-brown, plump dipper can often be seen bobbing up and down on a stone in a fast-flowing river. It feeds on underwater insects by walking straight into, and under the water.
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Another posing young dipper. The rock that the bird is perching on is inside but close to the opening of a small bridge. In the background there are three culverts discharging water from a small stream which feeds the river Irwell. Three Dippers fledged but on the following day I only ever saw one bird. A magpie investigated the river bank on a daily basis and occasionally I saw a sparrowhawk hunting the river's edge. I can only presume that the fledglings fell victim to the hunting birds.
Dipper - Cinclus Cinclus
aka Water Ouzel
Dippers are members of the genus Cinclus in the bird family Cinclidae, named for their bobbing or dipping movements. They are unique among passerines for their ability to dive and swim underwater.
They have a characteristic bobbing motion when perched beside the water, giving them their name. While under water, they are covered by a thin, silvery film of air, due to small bubbles being trapped on the surface of the plumage.
Dippers are found in suitable freshwater habitats in the highlands of the Americas, Europe and Asia. In Africa they are only found in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco. They inhabit the banks of fast-moving upland rivers with cold, clear waters, though, outside the breeding season, they may visit lake shores and sea coasts.
The high haemoglobin concentration in their blood gives them a capacity to store oxygen greater than that of other birds, allowing them to remain underwater for thirty seconds or more, whilst their basal metabolic rate is approximately one-third slower than typical terrestrial passerines of similar mass. One small population wintering at a hot spring in Suntar-Khayata Mountains of Siberia feeds underwater when air temperatures drop below −55 °C (−67 °F).
Dippers are completely dependent on fast-flowing rivers with clear water, accessible food and secure nest-sites. They may be threatened by anything that affects these needs such as water pollution, acidification and turbidity caused by erosion. River regulation through the creation of dams and reservoirs, as well as channelization, can degrade and destroy dipper habitat.
Dippers are also sometimes hunted or otherwise persecuted by humans for various reasons. The Cyprus race of the white-throated dipper is extinct. In the Atlas Mountains dippers are claimed to have aphrodisiacal properties. In parts of Scotland and Germany, until the beginning of the 20th century, bounties were paid for killing dippers because of a misguided perception that they were detrimental to fish stocks through predation on the eggs and fry of salmonids.
Population:
UK breeding:
6,200-18,700 pairs
An American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus) roosts on a drift wood log in the middle of a stream Waterton National Park, Alberta, Canada.
20 August, 2014.
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Species: Cinclus cinclus.
Few birds are strictly confined to one habitat type as the Dipper. In summer, it is essentially a bird of fast-flowing, but often tree-lined rivers in uplands. It remains there if it can in winter, but hard weather may drive it lower down or even to the edge of large lakes and reservoirs or the sea coast. It is quite at home swimming and diving, or simply walking into the water and disappearing underneath as it searches for food. Its springy, bouncing movements and call are also distinctive. Info: RSPB.
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