The American Dipper is a stocky dark grey bird with a head sometimes tinged with brown, and white feathers on the eyelids that cause the eyes to flash white as the bird blinks. It is 16.5 cm long and weighs on average 46 g. It has long legs, and bobs its whole body up and down during pauses as it feeds on the bottom of fast-moving, rocky streams.
Similar species: Perching Birds
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Uploaded Apr 19, 2014. Captured Aug 16, 2006 03:27 in Tonahutu Creek Trail, Rocky Mountain National Park, Grand Lake, CO 80447, USA.
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