American dipper
Cinclus mexicanus
Identification Tips:
- Length: 5.75 inches
- Slender bill
- Slate-gray body with browner head
- Frequently bobs very short tail
- Pale legs
- Sexes similar
- Juvenile paler
- Found along streams in mountains-often feeds under water
Similar species:
The American Dipper is unlikely to be confused with any other species.
Length and wingspan from: Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc.