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Dippers eat mostly aquatic insects and insect larvae. However, they will occasionally take other invertebrates, as well as small fish or fish eggs. For the longest time, I had only ever seen it eat juvenile fish (alevin and fry) in the winter, presumably when invertebrates are uncommon.<\/p>\n

It came as a surprise to see a dipper feeding a small fish to its chicks in a nest. Mind you, the chicks are still deep in the nest so I did not see them actually eat the fish, but the fish was delivered to them, and the parent left the nest without it.<\/p>\n

A dipper stopped on a rock in the stream to look around for predators. It has a fish in its bill. It then flew up to its nest and fed it to its chicks.
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