He nodded, bobbing his head like a water ouzel.

One can encounter chamois and the water ouzel, which also nests in the gorge.

"We call it a dipper," Brian said, "because of the way he dips his head, but properly he's a water ouzel.

Beneath the surface of rushing mountain streams walks the water ouzel, or dipper, fishing among the stream-rounded boulders.

The raven, Clark's nutcracker, Oregon jay, and water ouzel frequent the forest and streams year-round.

Conspicuous birds include the blue-fronted jay, Sierra hermit thrush, water ouzel, and Townsend solitaire.

Sierra Hermit Thrush, water ouzel, and Townsend's Solitaire.

"Ouzel" may also be applied to a group of superficially similar but unrelated birds, the dippers, the European representative of which is sometimes known as the Water Ouzel.

In most of its habits, it closely resembles its European counterpart, the White-throated Dipper, Cinclus cinclus, which is also sometimes known as a Water Ouzel.

After releasing this beautiful and totally undeserved fish, I said to Wayne, "Now I can ask the question I was about to ask when that fish struck: Is that a water ouzel over there?"

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 American Dipper (Cinclus mexicanus), also known as a Water Ouzel, is a stocky dark grey bird with a head sometimes tinged with brown, and white feathers on the eyelids cause the eyes to flash white as the bird blinks.

The White-throated Dipper and American Dipper are also known in Britain and America, respectively, as the Water Ouzel (sometimes spelt "ousel") - ouzel originally meant the unrelated but superficially similar Eurasian Blackbird (Old English osle).

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).