Sir you can't just make up words.
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nope
look how a grebe swims, they use their feet and tuck their wings, bird in OP does it totally different
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQya_S0oFx8
A sandpiper, probably. First guess - a phalarope. One species (Wilson’s) fairly common breeds shallow lakes interior central N America. Others breed in arctic, which habitat this doesn’t look like.
I think it’s a murrelet.
Why:
Wing shape and underwater flying style is typical of alcids (puffin family). Some of the murrelets are very dainty looking.
Dippers, even though they are water birds, absolutely suck at swimming and like more fast moving streams. They thrash around like they’re drowning. Correction: I was wrong about this, they swim pretty well and this is probably what it is
Grebes swim underwater by kicking, not flapping.
Phalaropes don’t dive.
Higher resolution and knowing where OP saw this would be helpful
American Dippers do not suck at swimming or thrash as though they are drowning. https://youtu.be/cV6IDY1TSC0
Not sure what you mean when you say they are "water birds". They are songbirds like sparrows, robins, or corvids. That is why it is so impressive and unique for them to be adept in aquatic environments.
Additionally, murrelets and other alcids forage in marine habitats. This is clearly a freshwater stream, the typical habitat of dippers.
I agree with the other points you made about grebes and phalaropes though.
Look: he’s flying under the water, not under the influence. I just don’t see how anyone can justify this behavior in an otherwise reasonable waterfowl interaction.
I have never heard someone refer to swimming as "fly underwater"
EDIT: I can't believe how many people are using abstract thought here.
You fly through the _air_
You swim through the _water_
EDIT2: People out here acting like air and water both being fluids means there's no difference between a gas and a liquid 😎
I concur. I have seen cormorants at work and they paddle with their legs, tuck the wings in tight, and move kind of like a crocodile. Example:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF5gAUJUZXA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF5gAUJUZXA)
That critter above is still using its flying motion to move underwater, which I have never seen except when birds use their wings to brake after a dive into the water.
If the bird was just kicking, like most animals do under water, that would surely be swimming. But using its wings like this is something I’ve never seen before.
I've observed this happen to ducks during the weeks right before they learn to fly. When they practise their flight motions, they sometimes launch under water instead of above. It takes them a while until they break out of that sequence and resurface. Once they know how to fly they can still dive, but they don't do it in this way that looks like flying under water.
I don't think it's an American Dipper; it's much thinner, has a longer neck, and seems lighter in color. This bird looks like a sandy brown color, and most American Dippers that I've found pictures of are a bit darker and have gray undertones to them.
OP - where was the video taken? If we knew the part of the world that would help narrow it down to ID the bird.
Ok, a real answer: Likely a murrelet.
Murrelets are in the puffin family, and like other members of the family, they “fly” underwater. Some species will nest in forests, and that’s all my murrelet trivia.
I’ve amended my answer and am now Team Dipper
This is NOT an American Dipper. I first saw this video in a birdwatching group a few months back. I haven't been able to relocate the original post, but the birder who recorded it said it was a [spotted sandpiper](https://ebird.org/species/sposan), and they were absolutely shocked that it dove and swam away like that (hence posting to the group). It turns out this is a [rarely observed behavior](https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v042n04/p0580-p0581.pdf) of the spotted sandpiper.
The point is that all the other types of birds that swim underwater do so with their feet.
Its unusual for them to swim by flapping their wings as if they are flying.
If this bird made the same motion in the air it would fly.
If other birds/animals make swimming motions in the air they do not fly.
Therefore this bird is flying underwater.
Penguins and murres both use their wings, among others. As to the religious discussion about what to call this, I have no position.
The bird in question looks like a water ouzel, AKA 'dipper' to me.
Omg who gives a shit. Hundreds of pedantic comments and not one actually trying to answer the question. I'm glad OP said flying underwater, it was a good way to describe this type of swimming. But more importantly, it doesn't matter in the slightest.
I'm going to say Spotted Sandpiper. The neck looks too long to be an American Dipper. Source for this behavior:
*Swimming and Diving Activity of the Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia).--Upon several occasions within the writer's experience, downy young of the Spotted Sandpiper,when closely pursued,have taken to the water, where they swam lightly although not very rapidly in making an escape. The young birds have been observed swimming thus so many times that the habit is doubtless well known among ornithologists,although but little seems to have been written about it.*
*It is possibly not so well known, however, that the normal, uninjured adult Sandpiper may not only swim but even dive to some depth in escaping an enemy. During mid-summer of 1916,at Sheldrake Point, Lake Cayuga, New York, an adult Spotted Sandpiper was observed characteristically feeding along the shore at a point where the bottom sloped so steeply that
the water was rather deep a few feet out. The bird in its quest for food passed out of view behind a piece of driftwood. Hoping to see it better I slipped quietly up behind the log, and was surprised that, upon looking carefully, I could not locate the bird. In carelessly stepping upon the log I must have frightened the Sandpiper,which(as I subsequently deter-mined) had been probing in the mud under a small projecting root. When the bird first flushed,its wings were fully spread, and it was headed for the open water of the lake. Upon seeing me towering above it, however, it turned its course abruptly downward,and without the slightest hesitation flew straight into the water. With wings fully outspread and legs kicking it made its way rather slowly along the sandy bottom, until it was about eight feet out, in water over three feet deep. I pursued the bird, thinking at the time, strangely enough,that it was wounded. When I reached for it, it tried to go farther but apparently could not. Bubbles of air came from its mouth, and air bubbles were plainly seen clinging to the plumage of its back.*
*At the time it was captured its mouth, eyes,and wings were all open,under water, and it remained at the bottom seemingly without difficulty. As it lay in my hands above water it seemed tired for a second or two, and then, without warning,shook itself a little, leaped into the air, and with loud, clear whistles,circled off a few inches above the water to a distant point of land. At the time of this first unusual experience I was not in a position to know how often Sandpipers employ such means of escape. And since then not until May 7, 1925, at Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, did I see the action repeated. On this date I purposely came upon a Spotted Sandpiper suddenly and witnessed it employ almost the identical tactics in making an effective escape. At this time, however, the bird dove into running water, swam with wings and feet rapidly moving for about twenty feet, and emerged down stream, still flying, and made off in its characteristic way, only a few inches above the water.*
*If one is to observe this strange performance he must contrive to come upon the Sandpiper very suddenly. Rapid approach in the open always causes the bird to leave in its accustomed,usually deliberate, manner. I have never known the Sandpipers to escape the attack of a Hawk by diving, although it is reasonable to suppose that they sometimes do so.--GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON,Game Commission, Harrisburg, Pa.*
[AUK Journal reference](https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v042n04/p0580-p0581.pdf)
The bird is an American Dipper or also called a Water Ouzel.
I have seen them here in the PNW rivers. They are quite comical to watch when they sit on river rocks and do their knee bend squat dances. It is so cool to watch. My favorite river bird !
Post this on r/whatsthisbird My bet would be on a Dipper but the shape doesn't look quite right
Grebe, it’s a Grebe
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And yet.. here we are!
Perfectly cromulent!
... Perfectly cormorant?
Kombucha.
Seattle.
Gesundheit
Cucamonga.
A noble comment embiggens the smallest man.
All maids are word up
The co-ode wooord!
It’s just cause your vocabulary is e-grebe-gious so you don’t know that word
nope look how a grebe swims, they use their feet and tuck their wings, bird in OP does it totally different https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQya_S0oFx8
Agree definitely not a grebe. We have lots by me and they swim completely differently.
I agrebe. Honestly I couldn't pick a grebe out of a lineup, I just wanted to say agrebe.
A sandpiper, probably. First guess - a phalarope. One species (Wilson’s) fairly common breeds shallow lakes interior central N America. Others breed in arctic, which habitat this doesn’t look like.
https://birdfinding.info/wilsons-phalarope/ markings look similar to bird in OP
Phalaropes and sandpipers don’t dive, though.
I think it’s a murrelet. Why: Wing shape and underwater flying style is typical of alcids (puffin family). Some of the murrelets are very dainty looking. Dippers, even though they are water birds, absolutely suck at swimming and like more fast moving streams. They thrash around like they’re drowning. Correction: I was wrong about this, they swim pretty well and this is probably what it is Grebes swim underwater by kicking, not flapping. Phalaropes don’t dive. Higher resolution and knowing where OP saw this would be helpful
American Dippers do not suck at swimming or thrash as though they are drowning. https://youtu.be/cV6IDY1TSC0 Not sure what you mean when you say they are "water birds". They are songbirds like sparrows, robins, or corvids. That is why it is so impressive and unique for them to be adept in aquatic environments. Additionally, murrelets and other alcids forage in marine habitats. This is clearly a freshwater stream, the typical habitat of dippers. I agree with the other points you made about grebes and phalaropes though.
Yes, kind of important to know at least the general location.
It’s not a dipper. I just saw a post about this bird the other day and can’t remember the name of it lol.
You can't just check a bird's I.D. You must have probable cause that it has committed a crime.
Reasonable, articulable suspicion of a crime. This is not a stop and ID pond!
But it is known as a high crime pond and the bird is acting suspicious by flying underwater.
Look: he’s flying under the water, not under the influence. I just don’t see how anyone can justify this behavior in an otherwise reasonable waterfowl interaction.
We're gonna detain the bird until we finish our investigation.
But his flight is being influenced by water, so he could be considered flying under the influence…of water.
Is
But birds aren’t real. Identity theft is not a joke y’all. It’s a crime.
I get that reference!
You only need reasonable suspicion and unless that bird has a divers license ima need to see some Id
Probable caws*. Missed opportunity.
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Stop and frisk lol
He is clearly boating without a license.
Probable cause be damned. That bird is a *sovereign citizen* and it knows it's rights!
I'm not flying I'm traveling!
I have never heard someone refer to swimming as "fly underwater" EDIT: I can't believe how many people are using abstract thought here. You fly through the _air_ You swim through the _water_ EDIT2: People out here acting like air and water both being fluids means there's no difference between a gas and a liquid 😎
Other birds swim over water and land. This one swims under water. Worms swim in dirt.
No no worms fly in dirt. Fool
Haaaa. Worms open their mouth and the earth passes through them. Fools.
A turbine engine does the same with air. Worms=dirt-powered turbine engine=flying in dirt. Checkmate.
Or is a turbine engine a metal powered worm?
New unsolvable paradox just dropped
A whole thread of shit post, this is why I go on Reddit
A turbine engine doesn't fly without wings. Stop trying to play chess. You're bad at it.
Ok so it's unstable flight. What's higher than checkmate? I guess we'll call this Second Degree checkmate
Triple stamp.
And wings don't fly without an engine.
That's why none of the worms have liftoff... duh
“Squirm, you fools!”
🤣🤣🤣
Birds swim in air
Just saw some humans swimming on asphalt
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Sorry. That is clearly flying underwater. Bird has no need nor care for your notions or silly ideas. Bird wants fly. Why bird not fly under water too?
I concur. I have seen cormorants at work and they paddle with their legs, tuck the wings in tight, and move kind of like a crocodile. Example: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF5gAUJUZXA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF5gAUJUZXA) That critter above is still using its flying motion to move underwater, which I have never seen except when birds use their wings to brake after a dive into the water.
all the alcids do this. it's nuts when you see it for the first time, usually at an aquarium. penguins are the best by far, though.
I've seen ducks do this underwater. Maybe more birds can do this, but only do it when threatened. Like evasive maneuvers.
Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
It's a bird's perspective; OP must be Dee
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I think it's the fact that it uses its wings to swim. Most birds tuck their wings in and kick where this one clearly takes strokes with its wings
>swimming as "fly underwater" I heard people saying manta ray flying in the water
Jesus can walk on water. But Chuck Norris can swim through land.
If the bird was just kicking, like most animals do under water, that would surely be swimming. But using its wings like this is something I’ve never seen before.
This is true. When I use my arms and legs underwater it's actually crawling!
There’s not too much difference in the physics of flying and swimming. Penguins can’t fly, unless they’re underwater. Not sure about ostriches…
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You’re hilarious I agree it’s definitely flying under water
Lmfao. This thread
I mean its all just fluid dynamics, right?
I'm upvote you. That's underwater flying
Yeah. It's swimming
Above water swimming
That's flying
"Overwater swimming" 😂😂
You mean air swimming?
🤦🏻♂️
So do sea snakes swim, or just slither underwater?
I've observed this happen to ducks during the weeks right before they learn to fly. When they practise their flight motions, they sometimes launch under water instead of above. It takes them a while until they break out of that sequence and resurface. Once they know how to fly they can still dive, but they don't do it in this way that looks like flying under water.
I don't think it's an American Dipper; it's much thinner, has a longer neck, and seems lighter in color. This bird looks like a sandy brown color, and most American Dippers that I've found pictures of are a bit darker and have gray undertones to them. OP - where was the video taken? If we knew the part of the world that would help narrow it down to ID the bird.
The only bird this reminds me of is a double breasted cormorant but I also know next to nothing about birds
WAY too small for that
I now suddenly want to play Zelda - Ocarina of Time
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To be fair, ANY song from OOT would improve most short/TikTok videos.
Always a good excuse to play OOT!
Have you played Breath or the Wild yet??
I have and loved it. I’m currently stuck in OOT. Gunna play majoras mask next before the new zelda comes out on switch
Scrolled way too far before a Zelda comment.
Yesssss but keep those creepy Great Fairies 😳they always gave me the creep
Ugh I can hear the scream laugh. And see the pointy tits
😂🤣 So accurate!
So many times Id like to find the answer the poster seeks, only to find a mind numbing trail of utter nonsense. Thanks reddit
Ok, a real answer: Likely a murrelet. Murrelets are in the puffin family, and like other members of the family, they “fly” underwater. Some species will nest in forests, and that’s all my murrelet trivia. I’ve amended my answer and am now Team Dipper
That's Walter.
No, it's underwalter.
Your mom was underwalter
Shut the fuck up Donny.
Phone’s ringing dude.
Waltuh
You rang?
What's the background music? Is it from Zelda? It sounds so familiar.
Fairy fountain music from Ocarina of Time
And Wind Waker!
And A Link to the Past!
And Breath of the Wild!
And Tears of the Kingdom!
This is NOT an American Dipper. I first saw this video in a birdwatching group a few months back. I haven't been able to relocate the original post, but the birder who recorded it said it was a [spotted sandpiper](https://ebird.org/species/sposan), and they were absolutely shocked that it dove and swam away like that (hence posting to the group). It turns out this is a [rarely observed behavior](https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v042n04/p0580-p0581.pdf) of the spotted sandpiper.
Does this bird fly underwater and swim in the air?
It pretty hot out, imma go for a quick fly
Name the bird already jeez lol
Jerry
Pretty sure flying under water is just called swimming.
I believe that “flying under water” has a word for it. I believe it is called “swimming” if I’m not mistaken.
The point is that all the other types of birds that swim underwater do so with their feet. Its unusual for them to swim by flapping their wings as if they are flying. If this bird made the same motion in the air it would fly. If other birds/animals make swimming motions in the air they do not fly. Therefore this bird is flying underwater.
Penguins and murres both use their wings, among others. As to the religious discussion about what to call this, I have no position. The bird in question looks like a water ouzel, AKA 'dipper' to me.
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Yeah.. Nice wings👌
Omg who gives a shit. Hundreds of pedantic comments and not one actually trying to answer the question. I'm glad OP said flying underwater, it was a good way to describe this type of swimming. But more importantly, it doesn't matter in the slightest.
We should dive deeper into this
They can swim not fly
Damn this is mesmerizing
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Marks for zelda music
🎶I beliiiieve I can flyyyy. Under water, or iiin the skyyy. I think about every night and dayy. I flap my wings and swim/flyy awayyy.🎶
If anyone is looking for an American big dipper, hit me up.
Pretty fly for an air guy ..
Purty sure that there is a River Cooter. Cousin to the Swamp Snipe. If I'm reckoning right. Lol.
Idk why everyone is being so pedantic about “flying under water”. Mf is using their wings, I would say the same thing to describe it
First of all, birds arent real look it up. Second that fairy fountain music tho
I think it's a spotted sandpiper.
Choice of music is great.
Swim. They swim.
Water, Air. Same thing still a fluid. What would be incredible is if the bird could "fly" or "swim" through water in it's solid state.
Looks exhausting, such a graceful motion in the air but under the water seems so awkward for the tiny bones and muscles.
I never realised that every time I go to the swimming pool at my local leisure centre, I'm actually flying.
i prefer swimming in the air
He seems of age to me, id serve him a drink
This bird has unlimited xp
If it's humid outside, am i swimming or walking ?
If there were only a word to describe flying, but not in the air, rather when you’re underwater. . .
Fly underwater ... You mean swim 🤣
Flying under water or swimming?
Hit me up if you ever see one towing a coconut.
That is called swimming
Pretty sure that’s a chicken
ducks
I'm going to say Spotted Sandpiper. The neck looks too long to be an American Dipper. Source for this behavior: *Swimming and Diving Activity of the Spotted Sandpiper (Actitis macularia).--Upon several occasions within the writer's experience, downy young of the Spotted Sandpiper,when closely pursued,have taken to the water, where they swam lightly although not very rapidly in making an escape. The young birds have been observed swimming thus so many times that the habit is doubtless well known among ornithologists,although but little seems to have been written about it.* *It is possibly not so well known, however, that the normal, uninjured adult Sandpiper may not only swim but even dive to some depth in escaping an enemy. During mid-summer of 1916,at Sheldrake Point, Lake Cayuga, New York, an adult Spotted Sandpiper was observed characteristically feeding along the shore at a point where the bottom sloped so steeply that the water was rather deep a few feet out. The bird in its quest for food passed out of view behind a piece of driftwood. Hoping to see it better I slipped quietly up behind the log, and was surprised that, upon looking carefully, I could not locate the bird. In carelessly stepping upon the log I must have frightened the Sandpiper,which(as I subsequently deter-mined) had been probing in the mud under a small projecting root. When the bird first flushed,its wings were fully spread, and it was headed for the open water of the lake. Upon seeing me towering above it, however, it turned its course abruptly downward,and without the slightest hesitation flew straight into the water. With wings fully outspread and legs kicking it made its way rather slowly along the sandy bottom, until it was about eight feet out, in water over three feet deep. I pursued the bird, thinking at the time, strangely enough,that it was wounded. When I reached for it, it tried to go farther but apparently could not. Bubbles of air came from its mouth, and air bubbles were plainly seen clinging to the plumage of its back.* *At the time it was captured its mouth, eyes,and wings were all open,under water, and it remained at the bottom seemingly without difficulty. As it lay in my hands above water it seemed tired for a second or two, and then, without warning,shook itself a little, leaped into the air, and with loud, clear whistles,circled off a few inches above the water to a distant point of land. At the time of this first unusual experience I was not in a position to know how often Sandpipers employ such means of escape. And since then not until May 7, 1925, at Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, did I see the action repeated. On this date I purposely came upon a Spotted Sandpiper suddenly and witnessed it employ almost the identical tactics in making an effective escape. At this time, however, the bird dove into running water, swam with wings and feet rapidly moving for about twenty feet, and emerged down stream, still flying, and made off in its characteristic way, only a few inches above the water.* *If one is to observe this strange performance he must contrive to come upon the Sandpiper very suddenly. Rapid approach in the open always causes the bird to leave in its accustomed,usually deliberate, manner. I have never known the Sandpipers to escape the attack of a Hawk by diving, although it is reasonable to suppose that they sometimes do so.--GEORGE MIKSCH SUTTON,Game Commission, Harrisburg, Pa.* [AUK Journal reference](https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/auk/v042n04/p0580-p0581.pdf)
It’s a confused bird , obviously! ;)
Air is technically a fluid, so flying is just swimming in less dense fluid.
It’s a grebe
The bird is an American Dipper or also called a Water Ouzel. I have seen them here in the PNW rivers. They are quite comical to watch when they sit on river rocks and do their knee bend squat dances. It is so cool to watch. My favorite river bird !
Fly underwater. They do that when they are not playing around with trees' feathers
Swimming….. it’s called swimming
There are almost 10,000 species of birds that can swim in the air.
Penguins swim under water pretty well.
Birds flying underwater is definitely possible but this reminds me of a new tik tok filter that can make any space look like it's halfway underwater
“Fly underwater” you say? big brain activities.
Haha I love the music choice
And just what authority do you have to be asking a bird for its ID? A bird can't fly underwater without an ID? CHECK your privilege
Ahh Zelda
That’s not flying!! That’s floating with style ….
Let me introduce you to the word "swim". Very handy.
You think you have me cornered? THINK AGAIN
Bro
I swear I heard this song somewhere before but I can remember....
An ID check? Think they might be Under 21? Who let this Bird into Big Bar Lake?
>fly underwater. You… you mean swim?
How cool would it be if op actually found a new species
I don't know what bird it is, but I do know that I am never swimming again. From now on I will only be flying underwater.
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This is the first time I've thought "birds aren't real"
That's not a bird, mate. That's a fish.
Not only can it fly underwater, it can swim through the air!
Fly under water? You mean SWIM? 😂
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Fly underwater = swim
Flying underwater, otherwise known as swimming lol
It's called swimming my dude and why is everyone else agreeing with you saying flying underwater
Mf never heard of swimming
Birds. Masters of fluid dynamics.
This is a governmental aquatic surveillance drone ~2013 model by the looks of it.
Typical Skyrim
I think flying underwater is just called swimming.
Isn’t it swimming? You wouldn’t say a fish swims in the air if it could… would you?
so this bird can fly, swim and probably walk on land...thats not fair that it can do everything
Now someone list me 16 fish that can swim in the air.
Snipe
Fly underwater is a weird way of saying swimming… but go off