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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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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.

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