With their waterproof plumage, short, muscled wings and long legs and sharp claws, dippers are perfectly adapted for foraging in streams with rocky bottoms. Everything is swept away by the stream, but not the dipper. They also nest in streams with overhanging banks.
Spruce Grouse mostly eat needles of conifers and can often be seen high in pines and spruces, or like this beautiful male foraging on the ground. They also nest on the ground.
While they nest in the high Arctic, these small shorebirds migrate through the Great Plains all the way down to South America,
