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Taking Care of the Kids, American Dipper

Jun 15, 2015 | Birds, Dipper

  • This video show a few sequences of dipper parents feeding their young at the nest and after they fledge.
  • The fledged dippers had just left the nest that day.
  • Try to figure out what they are feeding the young.
  • Speculate as to why one of the adults is singing.
  • For more information about dippers look at Southeast’s Aquatic Songbird (American Dipper) by Bob Armstrong and Marge Hermans
  • A great source of information about dippers is the book American Dipper–Singers in the Mountain Streams it can be ordered at http://www.takugraphics.com/other-publications2/books/19006014
  • Also look at this essay by Mary Willson

Bob Armstrong
19200 Williwaw Way
Juneau, Alaska 99801
bob@discoverysoutheast.org

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