dippers in English

noun
1
a short-tailed songbird related to the wrens, frequenting fast-flowing streams and able to swim, dive, and walk under water to feed.
Swallows were chasing insects over the water and I watched dippers and grey wagtails feeding their young.
2
a ladle or scoop.
She plunged a dipper into it and began to ladle creamy milk into the pail.
3
a person who immerses something in liquid.
No farmer should employ dippers unless they hold an appropriate licence.
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1. Dippers are also sometimes hunted or otherwise persecuted by humans for various reasons.

2. Dippers also communicate visually by their characteristic dipping or bobbing movements, as well as by blinking rapidly to expose the white feathers on their upper eyelids as a series of white flashes in courtship and threat displays.

3. Unlike many water birds, dippers are generally similar in form to many terrestrial birds (for example they do not have webbed feet), but they do have some morphological and physiological adaptations to their aquatic habits.

4. Dippers’ calls are loud and high-pitched, being similar to calls made by other birds on fast rivers; the call frequencies lying within a narrow range of 4.0–6.5 kHz, well above the torrent noise frequency of <2 kHz.