Brown Dipper Cinclus pallasii is a chocolate-brown aquatic bird. Ranges Afghanistan to Russian Far East and Japan. In China, pallasii resident, with some seasonal movements, from Yunnan, Sichuan, and eastern Qinghai to southern, eastern, and Northeast China, also Taiwan; dorjei northwest Yunnan; and tenuirostris western Xinjiang and southern Tibet. Lives along rocky, fast-flowing montane streams, in China to 3500 m (11,480 ft.). Distinguished from dark-morph White-throated DipperC. cinclus by less-contrasting, wren-like brown plumage. Top and bottom R: Wolong Gu Scenic Area, Jiangxi, elev. 270 m (890 ft.), November. Bottom L: Emeishan, Sichuan, August. Center L: Guangxing Village (24.889820, 121.520130), Taiwan, elev. 130 m (440 ft.), February. (Craig Brelsford)
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Ormerod, S.J. and S.J. Tyler. Species account for Brown Dipper in family Cinclidae (Dippers). Pp. 353–4 in del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A. & Christie, D.A. eds. Handbook of the Birds of the World. Vol. 10. Cuckooshrikes to Thrushes. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona, Spain, 2005.
