water ouzel

American  

noun

1. dipper.

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water ouzel British  

noun

1. another name for dipper

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Etymology

Origin of water ouzel

First recorded in 1615–25

Example Sentences

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water ouzel

Among birds particularly interesting because of curious and unusual habits are the broadtailed hummingbird, water ouzel, campbird, nuthatch, nighthawk, and the ptarmigan, pipit, and rosy finch of the high peaks.

From Rocky Mountain [Colorado] National Park by United States. Dept. of the Interior

As he rocked he watched the water ouzel teetering on a rock in the river, joyously shaking from its back the spray which deluged it at intervals.

From The Man from the Bitter Roots by Caroline Lockhart

Some birds belong more properly to America, such as the Canada woodcock and the water ouzel; and there are several birds common to the east and west coasts of the Pacific.

From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Thomas Wallace Knox

Birds, 68, 96; in the Merced Valley, 50, 65-67; water ouzel, 106, 107, 223; wrens, 170; on Mount Hoffman, 173-77; sparrows on Cathedral Peak, 251.

From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir

Here I find the little water ouzel as much at home as any linnet in a leafy grove, seeming to take the greater delight the more boisterous the stream.

From My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir