1. General names
Chinese: The dippers are called 河乌 ('river crows') in Chinese.
Japanese: The Japanese name for the 'dipper' (or more properly, the 'brown dipper') is カワガラス kawa-garasu ('river crow'), written either 河烏 or 川烏. (Note: The word kawa, meaning 'river', can be written either 河 or 川 in Japanese, the first being used for larger rivers. In Chinese, these characters represent two distinct words. Of the two characters, only 河 means 'river' in Chinese).
Vietnamese: The Vietnamese name for the 'brown dipper' is Lội suối, meaning 'stream wader'. An ordinary English-Vietnamese dictionary gives Chim hét nước ('water thrush') as the Vietnamese word for 'dipper'.
2. Species names
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Cinclus cinclus |
White-throated dipper Dipper (Cheng) |
河乌 'river crow' or 普通河乌 'common river crow' (Alternative in 5) |
ムナジロカワガラス (胸白川烏 or 胸白河烏) muna-jiro kawa-garasu 'white-breasted river crow' |
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| Cinclus pallasii |
Brown dipper | 褐河乌 'brown river crow' |
河烏 'river crow' |
水黑老婆 'water black wife' |
カワガラス (川烏 or 河烏) kawa-garasu 'river crow' |
サワガラス (沢烏) sawa-garasu 'marsh crow' クロトリ (黒鳥) kuro-dori 'black bird' Also used for Black scoter |
Lội suối 'stream wader' |
Chim hét nước 'water thrush' (from a bilingual dictionary) |
3. Notes
Chinese:
The unmodified form 河乌 refers to the 'brown dipper' in Taiwan and the 'dipper' on the Mainland. Taiwan has only the Brown dipper, which it refers to as the 河烏 . Mainland China has two species: the Dipper of western China and the Brown dipper that is found throughout the east. Mainland ornithologists accommodate this by following the English naming.
