BirdUp · Species
Dunlin
Calidris alpina(Linnaeus, 1758)
Native
- Order
- CHARADRIIFORMES
- Family
- Scolopacidae
- Genus
- Calidris
01 · Identification
How to tell it apart
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.
Description · wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
02 · Where
Where to find it
- Breeding range
- NA, PAL : low (locally high) Arctic to temperate wet tundra of Holarctic: south-west to north-east Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Is., north British Isles, Scandinavia, Baltic states east through north Russia including Novaya Zemlya (north of north-west Siberia) and New Siberian Is. (north of east-central Russia), through Chukotskiy Pen., west Kamchatka, north Kurile and north Sakhalin is. (east Russia); Aleutian Is., west and north Alaska, north-west Canada, north-central Canada north and west of Hudson Bay
- Non-breeding range
- South NA, AF, south PAL : coastal and inland wetlands from temperate to tropical zones north of Equator: British Isles, west Europe, Mediterranean, north and north-central Africa, Middle East and north Indian subcontinent to north Vietnam and east China, Taiwan, Korean Pen. and Japan (except north); south-west Canada and New England to west-central Mexico and Yucatan Pen.
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