Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii)

Other Names (World)
Brown Dipper, Pallas's Dipper, Asian Dipper, Asiatic Dipper

Family
Cinclidae (Dippers)

Size
21 - 22 cm

First Described (Guide)
Temminck, 1820

Habitat
Inland wetlands.

Range (Guide)

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.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (31)...)

Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii) [XC467435]
by Sunny Tseng from Kheri Mansingh, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India (flight call)

Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii) [XC114818]
by Mike Nelson from Mo Chuu, Phunaka, Bhutan (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.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Brown Dipper (Cinclus pallasii) - 10 files

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