A shorebird called the dunlin is found by the thousands in the reserve. From Wordnik.com. [Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington] Reference
Bird of the Day: tie between common grackle and dunlin. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Other shorebirds came and went in pairs or small groups: sanderlings, dunlin, black-bellied plovers. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
Behind them are leggy gangs of godwits and low, twisting lines of dunlin, like mud splashes tossed into the air. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
An osprey wheeled and dived, causing clouds made of thousands of dunlin see above photo to scramble to the other end of the shore like a swarm of bees. From Wordnik.com. [I heart birdwatchers | Seattle Metblogs] Reference
We could imagine the plaintive call of curlews just back from some salty estuary and the solitary piping of a dunlin, seemingly lost in all that bogland waste. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Langsett, Peak District] Reference
The most abundant are dunlin (Calidris alpina), bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica), curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) and redshank (Tringa totanus) all with populations of over 100,000 birds. From Wordnik.com. [Atlantic coastal desert] Reference
Reading Jonathan Franzen's annoyingly self-absorbed "My Bird Problem" in the latest New Yorker, one reason I kept going was the profusion of wonderful bird names: gadwall, veery, redstart, dunlin. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ORNITHONOMY.] Reference
This was the sea-birds 'country: snipe, oyster-catcher, dunlin, and terns strewn in small pattering groups at the edge of the sea, where the long ripples ran towards the land and broke in long curving ruffs round the little humps of sand. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
"Here we are, watching this ancient dance between the dunlin and the peregrines," Anderson said. From Wordnik.com. [The Olympian Online -- YahooNews] Reference
Across the road in a flooded pasture sat thousands of dunlin, which are stocky, long-billed shorebirds. From Wordnik.com. [The Olympian Online -- YahooNews] Reference
He jobs in technology dunlin with the unmutilated malathion that he mbundu a faded resonator or loch diapensiales in a fireclay. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Each winter, 68,000 birds including dunlin, redshank, pintail, wigeon and Bewick's swans find food and sanctuary along the river's muddy margins. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Express News Feeds] Reference
Runners-up in abundance were the dunlin (29 percent of the total), least sandpiper (12 percent), American avocet (8 percent), and willet (6 percent). From Wordnik.com. [The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper] Reference
Sleepy dunlin (I think ... though I was at first convinced they were purple sandpipers), an orange-legged ruddy turnstone, and a sweet spotty-flanked black-belly plover. From Wordnik.com. [Somewhere in NJ] Reference
Zack and Liebezeit also sighted a banded dunlin and semipalmated sandpiper both of which were originally marked and released by WCS scientists three years ago in nearby Prudhoe Bay. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference
There's a good chance you will also see ringed plover, dunlin and the occasional curlew, although the latter begin returning to their nesting sites further inland about this time of the year. From Wordnik.com. [Whitehaven News headlines] Reference
Laurie Walker, Katharine Colon and Sally Anderson were at Katama on March 7 and spotted numbers of dunlin, black-bellied plovers, four eastern meadowlarks, two snow geese and three red-tailed hawks. From Wordnik.com. [Vineyard Gazette - Top Stories] Reference
"Shorebirds like bar-tailed godwits from Australia, dunlin from Asia, and semipalmated sandpipers from South America are affected by different threats in their wintering and summering grounds," says Zack. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference
I spotted familiar birds from our studies at Prudhoe Bay and near Teshekpuk Lake and pointed them out to my colleagues - puffed up pectoral sandpiper males in the waning days of their displays, long-billed dowitchers from Central America, dunlin from. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
"Since the revival of the peregrine falcons, dunlins have had to manage the danger, and instead of roosting on the foreshore at high tide they spend hours flying around," says Ydenberg, whose researchers also use radar units to monitor dunlin activity. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
A sizeable flock of nondescript waders that I guess were dunlin, though they may have beenknots (which are very similar in their winter plumage) waders aren't really my strong point!). From Wordnik.com. [Crafty Green Poet] Reference
dunlin 2. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
WWT Slimbridge (up to 750,000 starlings, 150,000 gulls, 12000 lapwing, 2000 dunlin). From Wordnik.com. [BBC Blog Network] Reference
American avocet, greater yellowlegs, and dunlin had their highest counts in San Pablo Bay; black-bellied plover, black-necked stilt, lesser yellowlegs, long-billed curlew, marbled godwit, ruddy turnstone, red knot, western and least sandpipers, and dowitchers were most numerous in the South Bay, including the salt ponds. From Wordnik.com. [The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper] Reference
Shorebirds and seabirds that utilize freshwater and/or estuarine habitats, linking freshwater and marine environments, include the red phalarope (Phalaropus fulicaria), parasitic jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus), red knot (Calidris canutus), dunlin (C. alpina), long-tailed jaeger (S. longicaudus), northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis), glaucous gull (Larus hyperboreus), white-rumped sandpiper (C. fuscicollis), western sandpiper (C. mauri), rednecked stint (C. ruficollis), Lapland longspur (Calcarius lapponicus), black-bellied plover (Pluvialis squatarola), semipalmated plover (Charadrius semipalmatus), and ruddy turnstone (Arenaria interpres). From Wordnik.com. [Freshwater ecosystems in the Arctic] Reference
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