Filming the incredible European dipper 🐦🪶🎥✨ Undoubtedly one of our most impressive little birds! And also our only aquatic songbird in the UK! They have an amazing range of adaptations, that despite being songbirds, make them perfectly adapted for life on the water! 💦 ❄️ Some of these include sharp claws so they can walk along the river bed in search of prey, dense waterproof plumage, solid bones for diving, and higher levels of hemoglobin in their blood so they can store more oxygen for div

63M views · 2.3M reactions | #DidYouKnow the American Dipper is North America's only truly aquatic songbird? One of our staff here at the Alaska Raptor Center, captured this amazing footage of an American Dipper swimming upstream here in Sitka, Alaska! | Alaska Raptor Center | Facebook

The life of the American Dipper is unique. It lives in mountainous terrains. In the middle of cold and pure rivers. There it developed a special ability to survive. This bird flies underwater. You can now also find us on Youtube: http://bit.ly/yt-thekiwi | The Kiwi