Dippers (Cinclidae)
Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii) - HBW 10, p. 353
French: Cincle de Pallas
German: Pallaswasseramsel
Spanish: Mirlo-acuático Pardo
Other common names: Pallas’s/Asian/Asiatic Dipper
Taxonomy: Cinclus Pallasii Temminck, 1820, “Crimea”; error = eastern Siberia.
Closest to C. cinclus. Proposed races yesoensis (described from Hokkaido, in N Japan), hondoensis (Hondo, in S Japan) and marila (Taiwan) are considered indistinguishable from nominate; similarly, undina (from Khasi Hills, in NE India) is merged with dorjei. Three subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- pallasii Temminck, 1820 - E Russia, C & E China, Korea, Sakhalin I, S Kuril Is, Japan (S to Yakushima) and Taiwan.
- tenuirostris Bonaparte, 1850 - Tien Shan Mts S to N Afghanistan, and from NW Pakistan (Safed Koh) E in Himalayas to Sikkim.
- dorjei Kinnear, 1937 - E Himalayas E to mountains of W, N & E Myanmar, S China (W Yunnan), NW Thailand, N & C Laos and NW Vietnam.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird looking into the river for food, diving and emerging with a prey and eating it on the ice. Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp pallasii)
Josep del Hoyo 4 February 2010 2 years ago 40 sec 4.9 -
A view of the habitat, then a bird swimming, diving and flying away. Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp pallasii)
Josep del Hoyo 4 February 2010 2 years ago 43 sec 4.8 -
A bird singing on a rock Locality Ta-hsueh-shan, Taiwan (ssp pallasii)
James Jyh Haw Ting 9 January 2007 5 years ago 22 sec 4.6 -
A bird swimming on the river, walking on the ice, flicking its tail and wings and finaly flying away. Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp pallasii)
Josep del Hoyo 4 February 2010 2 years ago 34 sec 4.6 -
A bird preening and bathing Locality Ta-hsueh-shan, Taiwan (ssp pallasii)
James Jyh Haw Ting 9 January 2007 5 years ago 36 sec 4.5 -
An adult bird preening on the ice and zoom out showing the habitat. Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp pallasii)
Josep del Hoyo 4 February 2010 2 years ago 41 sec 4.5
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A bird perched on a small rock, over the water.
Locality Guangdong, China (Southern) (ssp pallasii)
John and Jemi Holmes 33 weeks ago 4.4 -
An immature feeding under water at 6500 feet.
Locality Kasol, Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, India (ssp tenuirostris)
J.M. Garg 5 May 2007 3 years ago 3.8 -
One bird on a rock
Locality Ala Archa National Park, Chuy Province, Kyrgyzstan
Rémi Bigonneau 8 August 2011 1 year ago 3.8 -
Brown Dipper, lateral view.
Locality Ladakh, Jammu and Kashmir, India (ssp tenuirostris)
Mark Andrews 4 November 2009 3 years ago 3.5 -
An adult bird feeding on a current river.
Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp pallasii)
Josep del Hoyo 4 February 2010 2 years ago 3.4 -
A bird feeding on a river current.
Locality Rausu, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp pallasii)
Josep del Hoyo 4 February 2010 2 years ago 3.4
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An adult calling while moving among river rocks. Locality Tigrinka River, Primorsky Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia
(ssp pallasii)
Josep del Hoyo 16 June 2009 3 years ago 4
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