Monday, April 30, 2007

Ouzel ain't a word and I ain't gonna use it...

Water ouzel, or American dipper, a bird that "flies" under whitewater.

I went rafting the Green River and mentioned that I thought Dippers were also known as Water Ouzels...even the ornithologist who was with us had never heard that name...today, I found evidence on the net that Ouzel is a word, and another name for water dippers... :)

2 Comments:

Blogger Native Minnow said...

The other day I was trying to remember the one that supposedly wasn't a duck. Do you remember?

5/02/2007 8:21 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Merganser... :)

5/02/2007 3:36 PM  

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