| Plump, all-gray bird with short neck, short bill, short tail, and long toes
Clear, fast-moving streams primarily in conifer forests
Larvae of caddisflies, stoneflies, mayflies, mosquito, midges, water striders, water boatmen, diving beetles; also clams, snails, small fish, fish eggs
Hawks, mink, weasels; sometimes large fish
Dippers can walk underwater by grasping stream bottoms with their long toes and pushing forward with short wing strokes.
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