European Dipper

“Bill shorter that head, slender and compressed throughout, higher that broad at the nostrils, about straight, but seeming to be slightly recurved, owing to a sort of upward tilting of the superior mandible; culmen, notched near the end; gonys convex. Nostrils linear, opening beneath a large scale partly covered with feathers. No rictal vibrissae, nor any trace of bristles or bristle-tipped feathers about the nostrils. Plumage soft, lustreless, remarkably full and compact, water-proof. Body stout, thick set. Habits aquatic.” Elliot Coues, 1884

Keywords

birds, aquatic birds, ornithology, dipper, insectivorous, European birds, water fowl, passerine birds, bird sketch, European Dipper, a dipper sitting on a rock in the water, White Throated Dipper, Cinclus cinclus

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Birds: D-E

Source

Elliot Coues Key to North American Birds (Boston, MA: Estes and Lauriat, 1884)

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