I first learned about these birds when I was taking an Ornithology class, and it has been on my “Must See” bird list ever since. The American Dipper is a western species that is not a long ...

This week I’d like to talk about one of my favorite birds. To me, this bird resembles a person on steroids at the gym doing deep knee bends or a child building their nerve for the first dive into ...

As fall and winter approach, I have been thinking about birds that overwinter in the Upper Clark Fork Valley. The American dipper is an often overlooked permanent resident of southwest Montana. In ...

Fishermen see them. Kayakers and rafters see them. Walkers on the recreation path along Gore Creek see them. American dippers are songbirds of clear, cold and fast-running streams and can be spotted ...

The dipper is a gray bird about the size of a robin. Chunky, with a stubby tail. It lives along rocky, fast-flowing mountain streams. (OK, there aren't any mountains in Minnesota, but North Shore ...

“He is the mountain streams’ own darling, the humming-bird of blooming waters, loving rocky ripple-slopes and sheets of foam as a bee loves flowers, as a lark loves sunshine and meadows,” he ...

Over 150 years ago, John James Audubon drew this bird in one of his famous illustrations. Called plate 370, he called this bird the American water ouzel, Cinclus americanus.

The dipper often feeds while flying underwater, using the liquid as it does another fluid, air. The birds also snorkel, swimming on the surface with their heads below the water surface.

Naturalist Emily Stone examines the American Dipper. ... In the foreground, my memory followed the flight of a bird as it whirred upstream, just skimming the Lamar River's quicksilver surface.

If You Go What: “Master of Aquarobics: American Dipper” lecture When: Noon Tuesday and 6-7 p.m. Wednesday Where: Loveland Public Library, 300 N. Adams Ave. Cost: Free Info: Eighth program in a ...

When you are out enjoying our rivers and streams this summer, you may be entertained by the scuba bird, the American Dipper. The Dipper has the ability control its buoyancy, floating on the water ...