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<\/a>The white-throated dipper C. cinclus has the widest distribution, and also the most fragmented populations of this species.<\/p>\n Dippers have almost black coloured eyes and their nictating membrane is white and presumably completely opaque.<\/p>\n The bird is common in suitable habitats in a widespread but discontinuous range. Breeds in Ireland and north and west Britain, Spain and north Portugal and from southern and eastern France and Italy to the Balkans and Greece. In the north found in central Denmark and throughout Norway and Sweden, north Finland and the southern half of the Kola Peninsula. Isolated pockets in south Finland and the Baltic States, in parts of north Russiaand in the Urals. In the south breeds in the Caucasus and much of Turkey, in the Lebanon and in Morocco and north Algeria and in the Mediterranean on Corsica, possibly Sardinia, and Sicily, formerly also Cyprus. Has bred in the Netherlands. Most populations are basically resident but many make short-distance dispersal movements in autumn usually to lower altitudes. In the far north where waters become frozen makes longer movements and partially migratory leaving breeding areas in October-November and returning in March.<\/p>\n Here’s a little film of a dipper feeding<\/p>\nA note about populations and movement<\/h5>\n