Sentence examples for water ouzel from inspiring English sources

A tiny dipper, or water ouzel, bird bobbed its head back and forth, then dove into the water to feed.

A few of the common animal and bird species seen along the river are American black bear, North American river otter, black-tailed deer, bald eagle, osprey, great blue heron, water ouzel, and Canada goose.

The ouzel usage survived later in poetry, and still occurs as the name of the closely related ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus), and in water ouzel, an alternative name for the unrelated but superficially similar white-throated dipper (Cinclus cinclus).

The dippers, or water ouzels (Cinclus), are semiaquatic, but, although they successfully swim on the water surface and walk underwater searching for food on stream bottoms, they have retained the typical passerine foot.

BNA Account Authors: Willson, Mary F. and Kingery, Hugh E. John Muir's "ouzel" or "water thrush" now bears the name American Dipper, a descriptive name that matches the names of this species' European, Asian, and South American counterparts.

He is, for example, an expert on ring ouzel dialects.

Admirers of Muir's ouzel have attributed to it a combination of factual and mythical characters.

It has been some years since I have seen a ring ouzel.

There, standing out among them was a slim bird with black feathers and a clean white bib: a ring ouzel!

Ouzel Outfitters offer several-day trips that take rafters through the remote desert canyons, offering close-up looks at desert wildlife and ancient petroglyphs.

Emily, who kept two pet geese, copied the whinchat and ring ouzel, and a vignette of an old woman beating off geese.