Young's Flipper Dippers Fish Fingers, 10 x 25g (Frozen)

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Smoky beef burritos – load up the table with smoky beef and lots of toppings and let everyone dive in and make up their own burritos. American dippers are oddballs of the passerine world. Along with the four other species in their genus, Cinclus, they’re the world’s only aquatic songbirds, or passerines. They’re sometimes known as water ouzels. The white-capped dipper ( Cinclus leucocephalus) is found exclusively in South America, specifically throughout the Andes Mountains.

The genus Cinclus was introduced by the German naturalist Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen in 1797 with the white-throated dipper ( Cinclus cinclus) as the type species. [3] [4] The name cinclus is from the Ancient Greek word kinklos that was used to describe small tail-wagging birds that resided near water. [5]J., Martens; Geduldig, G. (1990). "Acoustic adaptations of birds living close to Himalayan torrents". Proc. Int. 100 DO-G Meeting. Bonn: Current Topics Avian Biol. pp.123–131.

If you have spent time at the Falls of Clyde reserve, you may have spotted this plump, handsome little bird hunting for insects and fish in the fast flowing waters. The European/white-throated dipper ( Cinclus cinclus) can be found throughout the Palearctic, including much of Europe, the Middle East, portions of central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent in southern Asia. Dinets, V.; Sanchez, M. (2017). "Brown Dippers ( Cinclus pallasi) overwintering at −65°C in Northeastern Siberia". Wilson Journal of Ornithology. 129 (2): 397–400. doi: 10.1676/16-071.1. S2CID 91058122. Whistler, Hugh (2007). Popular Handbook of Indian Birds (4thed.). London: British Museum Natural History. ISBN 978-1-4067-4576-4. Ormerod, S.; Tyler, S. (2020). del Hoyo, J.; Elliott, A.; Sargatal, J.; Christie, D.A.; de Juana, E. (eds.). "Dippers (Cinclidae)". Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions. doi: 10.2173/bow.cincli1.01. S2CID 242827109 . Retrieved 11 February 2019. The text is identical to Volume 10 of the print edition published in 2005.

Dipper nests are rather unusual. At first glance, the nest appears to be a globe-like structure made of mosses and grasses that can be as large as a basketball – pretty massive for a relatively small bird! Upon closer inspection, however, the nest actually contains another, inner layer made of small roots, bark, leaves, grass, and sometimes various types of hair and feathers, which somewhat resembles a cup.