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A white-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) with dark plumage and a distinctive white throat stands on a rock in a flowing stream.
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A white-throated dipper, Cinclus cinclus, stands on a rock in a shallow stream with brown, white, and gray plumage visible.
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A white-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus) with dark plumage and a distinctive white throat stands on a rock in a flowing stream.
Eurasian dipper (Cinclus cinclus)

Dipper

bird
Also known as: Cinclus, water ouzel
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Dipper, (genus Cinclus), any of five species of songbirds of the Cinclidae family (order Passeriformes) noted for insect hunting by walking underwater in rushing streams and named for their frequent body bobbing. Among the best-known species are the Eurasian, or white-throated, dipper (Cinclus cinclus), blackish brown with a white breast, found from northern Africa and Europe to Manchuria, and the North American dipper (C. mexicanus), dull gray in colour, found from Alaska to Panama, east...

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