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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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The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
Watching from the Breydon Bridge observation hide at high tide, I suddenly became aware of hundreds of dunlin taking wing and climbing high above the saltings.
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.
Next day in the same general area where winds had driven water on the sand, four semipalmated sandpipers were feeding with dunlin.
The possibility of arctic birds like the red knot and the dunlin disappearing from Scotland's shores is yet another symptom of a sickening planet.
Suddenly hundreds of lapwing, redshank and dunlin all took wing, rapidly climbing high above the flooded flats.

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