Taxonomy
Cinclus is the only genus in the family Cinclidae. 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). Ouzel also survives as the name of a relative of the Blackbird, the Ring Ouzel.
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