The Dipper migration (1 Viewer)

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GalwayBirder

Well-known member

• Aug 4, 2009

• #1

I saw a dipper the other day and decided to read about them. Then I heard that they migrate. I have 2 questions:
Are Dippers migratory? And where do they migrate to?

 

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rokermartin

Well-known member

• Aug 4, 2009

• #2

We often get the black bellied race of Dipper in the UK a few have wintered before .

 

JWN Andrewes

Poor Judge of Pasta.

• Aug 4, 2009

• #3

I had an odd Dipper record in September last year of possibly a migrating bird. We get them on the river that runs past the bottom of the garden, but this one was heading south way in the distance and quite high up. If I hadn't been scoping through the gangs of Black-headed Gulls heading towards the coast to roost I never would have picked it up, and even when I did it was so out of context (and distant) that it took a few moments to figure out what the hell it was.

James

 

Quercus

homo sarkensis

• Aug 6, 2009

• #4

In the West of Scotland there is a noticable movement onto the coast during the Autumn/Winter.

 

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h14nha

Well-known member

• Aug 8, 2009

• #5

I cant speak for others but the dippers on my patch are there all year round, I am guaranteed to see them any day I look for them.
Regards
Ian

 

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Cheshire Birder

Well-known member

• Aug 8, 2009

• #6

I think that they disperse after the breeding season but I carnt say i've ever heard of them migrating. Birds of the continental form do appear from time to time generally along the east and south coasts of Britain. So they can travel quite a distance when dispersing.

CB