Beauy of Nature overloaded with Dippers

                 What ever you see in the nature,there is a meaning in it.So, lets have some look on it.

                                  White-throated dipper:

                              Scientific Name: Cinclus cinclus

                             Conservation Status: Least Concern

                                        Phylum: Chordata

                              Higher Classification: Dipper

                                        Rank: Species

                                     Order: Passerine

                                  Family: Cinclidae

      The white-throated dipper, also known as the European dipper or just dipper, is an aquatic passerine bird found in Europe, Middle East, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent.

 

      A hike through Lathkill Dale in Peak District National Park should always include a stop at Tufa Dam on the River Lathkill. There’s a good chance you’ll see a white-throated dipper standing in or near the water, bending and bobbing and finally making a move to catch a meal—maybe a beetle, small fish, or amphibian.

 

        

The dipper was first described as Sturnus cinclus by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. The genus and species name cinclus derives from the Greek word kinklos that used to describe small tail-wagging birds that resided near water.

There are 13 extant and extinct subspecies for the dipper

  ➢ C.c. cinclus 'Black-bellied Dipper' (Linnaeus, 1758) Scandinavia, western France, northwestern Spain, Corsica, Sardinia, and a migrant and infrequently travels to the British Isles from Shetland to Kent.

  ➢ C.c. gularis 'British Dipper' (Latham, 1801). England, Wales, and Scotland excluding western regions and the Hebrides.

  ➢ C.c. hibernicus 'Irish Dipper' (E. Hartert, 1910). Ireland and Western Scotland including the Hebrides

  ➢ C.c. aquaticus 'Southern European Dipper' (Bechstein, 1797). Central and southern Europe, ranging from Belgium, eastern France and Spain toward Greece, Poland and Sicily.

  ➢ C.c. minor 'Northwest African Dipper' (Tristam, 1870). Mountainous terrain of Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco.

  ➢ C.c. caucasicus 'Caucasus Dipper' (von Madarász, 1903). Caucasus mountains ranging to Iran, Iran, and Turkey. Winters in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

  ➢ C.c. persicus 'Persian Dipper' (Witherby, 1906). Southwest Iran in the Zagros and Bakhtiari mountains.

  ➢ C.c. rufivrentris 'Lebanon Dipper' (Tristam, 1884). Anti-Lebanon mountains.

  ➢ C.c. olympicus 'Cyprus Dipper' (von Madarász, 1903). Formerly in the Troodos mountains in Cyprus; currently extinct. Last recorded in 1945, and almost certainly extinct by 1958.

  ➢ C.c uralensis 'Ural Dipper' (Serebrovski, 1927). Ural Mountains.

  ➢ C.c. leucogaster 'White-bellied Dipper' (Bonaparte, 1850). Northern Afghanistan through Central Asia toward Eastern Siberia.

  ➢ C.c. cashmeriensis 'Cashmir Dipper' (Gould, 1860). Himalayas from western Kashmir to Sikkim.

  ➢ C.c. przewalskii 'Przewalskii Dipper' (Bianchi, 1905). Mountains of southern Tibet and western China.

    ➢ C.c. baicalensis (Dressen, 1892). No detailed georgraphy given.

 

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