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What is a dunlin?

What is a dunlin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A small wading bird, Calidris alpina, found along the coast and having a distinctive black belly patch in its breeding plumage. A type of stint.
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At Kaolak River a dunlin was feeding and flying with a group of four semipalmated sandpipers.
He would tell of immense flocks of widgeon, of banks of brent geese, and clouds of dunlin.
Next day in the same general area where winds had driven water on the sand, four semipalmated sandpipers were feeding with dunlin.
A name for the dunlin, Tringa alpina, a species of sand-piper frequenting our shores and the banks of rivers in winter.
The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
For some shorebird species, such as willets and dunlin, we had diet data from BBH, although diets for several other species at this site are unknown.

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