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noun

Water ouzel, Water ousel n. (Zool.) Any one of several species of small insessorial birds of the genus Cinclus (or Hydrobates), especially the European water ousel (Cinclus aquaticus), and the American water ousel (Cinclus Mexicanus). These birds live about the water, and are in the habit of walking on the bottom of streams beneath the water in search of food.

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... Magpies flitted through the shrubbery of the creek banks. In crossing a little wooden bridge near a waterfall, Davy saw an object in the water, then in the air, and then in the water where the spray fell and where foam formed. Later, he was to know this little slate-colored bird as the water ouzel, a bird that was neither wader nor swimmer, yet took his subsistence ...

— David Lannarck, Midget - An Adventure Story • George S. Harney

Words linked to "Water ouzel" : Cinclus aquaticus, American water ouzel, European water ouzel, Cinclus mexicanus, oscine, dipper, Cinclidae, oscine bird, family Cinclidae