Afghanistan (B) (NB), Bangladesh, Bhutan (B), China (mainland), India, Japan, Kazakhstan (B), Kyrgyzstan (B) (NB), Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea (B), Pakistan, Russia (Asian), South Korea (B), Taiwan (China), Tajikistan (B), Thailand, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.
Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).
Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii) [XC783656]
by Sunny Tseng from Beijing, Beijing, China (call)
Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii) [XC399079]
by Mike Dooher from Chaafi, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India (call, song)
Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
pallasii Temminck, 1820 - Eastern Russia, central and eastern China, Korea, Sakhalin I, southern Kuril Is, Japan (south to Yakushima) and Taiwan.
tenuirostris Bonaparte, 1850 - Tien Shan Mts south to northern Afghanistan, and from north-western Pakistan (Safed Koh) east in Himalayas to Sikkim.
dorjei Kinnear, 1937 - Eastern Himalayas east to mountains of western, northern and eastern Myanmar, southern China (western Yunnan), north-western Thailand, northern and central Laos and north-western Vietnam.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet