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Bird name: White Capped Dipper
Latin: Cinclus leucocephalus
Other: Mirlo acuático de coronilla blanca (Es)
Family: Cinclidae • Dippers
Range: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia
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Guango Lodge in Ecuador was a good place to see the White-Capped Dipper in April. We saw one diving in and out of the water, and making its way up the fast moving river that runs along the bottom end of the property, and another pair of White-Capped Dippers right underneath the waterfall at the upper section of the property.

The White-Capped Dipper is always found by water, in the Andean highlands, often in pairs. It has no problem walking on wet boulders.More photos...

209 Cinclidae - Dippers - IOC 2.5 - 2010

Cinclus cinclus - White-throated Dipper - Widespread Eurasia, also NW Africa
Cinclus pallasii - Brown Dipper - C, E Eurasia
Cinclus mexicanus - American Dipper - W Canada to Panama
Cinclus leucocephalus - White-capped Dipper - Colombia to Bolivia
Cinclus schulzi - Rufous-throated Dipper - NW Argentina, SE Bolivia