White Capped Dipper

Copyright: monacoeye • Pantanal, August 2011 • Do not copy without permission,

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.

The first of the small Cinclidae family on this site!





Below, a White-Capped Dipper, beside a fast-moving Andean river.