A name for the dunlin, Tringa alpina, a species of sand-piper frequenting our shores and the banks of rivers in winter. |
Next day in the same general area where winds had driven water on the sand, four semipalmated sandpipers were feeding with dunlin. |
At Kaolak River a dunlin was feeding and flying with a group of four semipalmated sandpipers. |
The dunlin is absolutely the commonest Limicoline bird of the shore, and certainly the most widely dispersed. |
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. |
It is the home of the lapwing, curlew, golden plover, dunlin and red grouse. |