American Dipper

The American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus), the lone member of the family Cinclidae establish in the United States, as well holds the title as the only aquatic songbird in the country. Dippers are found all through the West, where you find fast moving, cold streams and rivers.

They feel evenly at home in elevated elevation Rocky Mountains Rivers and low height coastal streams, as extensive as the water is clean. Their diet consists first and foremost of aquatic insects, though they will also eat small fish and salmon eggs when they are obtainable.

The picture of the dipper on the left, for example, was in use at a salmon spawning watercourse close to the coast. Like a lot of the diving ducks, dippers jump into the water and forage for their meals. In shallow streams they be inclined to wade along the stream bed pecking for food alike to shorebirds.

American Dippers are average sized birds with dull color feathers. When you watch them for any period of time, you also perceive sound them singing. Both sexes sing freely, for a diversity of reasons, counting marking territory and attracting mates.

Most dippers exist in year round in their favored streams. What little relocation they might practice typically consists of moving up or down stream, depending on climate and food conditions.