Dunlin
Calidris alpina
- Class
- Bird
- Rarity
- Rare
- Observations
- 37,363
- Most observed in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Conservation
- Near Threatened
Description
The dunlin is a small wader in the genus Calidris. The English name is a dialect form of "dunling", first recorded in 1531–1532. It derives from dun, "dull brown", with the suffix -ling, meaning a person or thing with the given quality.
Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article “Dunlin”.