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==Diet and feeding biology== The brown dipper can either feed by diving into streams to eat larger [[benthic]] organisms, or wade in shallower parts of streams and pick smaller organisms of the bottom. The adults will dive for food from December through April, which is when there are more large benthic organisms. Since this period is also the breeding season of the brown dipper, more food is required, so diving for large food is necessary. However, the adults will forage by wading and picking at the stream bottom for the rest of the year. Brown dipper chicks and fledglings will also forage by diving.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Eguchi | first=K. |year=1990 |title=The choice of foraging methods of the brown dipper, ''Cinclus pallasii'' (Aves: Cinclidae) | journal=Journal of Ethology | volume=8 |issue=2 |pages=121β127 |doi=10.1007/BF02350282| s2cid=11739480 }}</ref> One small population wintering at a hot spring in [[Suntar-Khayata Range|Suntar-Khayata Mountains]] of [[Siberia]] feeds underwater when air temperatures drop below -55 C.<ref>{{ cite journal | last1=Dinets | first1=V. | last2=Sanchez | first2=M. | year=2017 | title=Brown Dippers (''Cinclus pallasi'') overwintering at β65Β°C in Northeastern Siberia | journal=Wilson Journal of Ornithology | volume=129 | issue=2 | pages=397β400 | doi=10.1676/16-071.1 | s2cid=91058122 }}</ref> Following typhoons, brown dippers in upland Taiwanese streams are displaced by flooding into relatively poorer quality streams that likely act as an important refuge.<ref>{{cite journal | last1= Hong | first1=S.-Y. | last2= Sharp | first2=S.P. | last3= Chiu | first3=M.-C. |last4= Kuo | first4= M.-H. | last5= Sun | first5=Y.-H.| year=2018| title= Flood avoidance behaviour in Brown Dippers ''Cinclus pallasii'' | journal=Ibis| volume=160| issue=1 | pages=179β184 | doi=10.1111/ibi.12508 | url=https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/87690/1/Hong_et_al_Ibis_final_version.pdf }}</ref>
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