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Red-backed sandpiper
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dunlin
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small common sandpiper that breeds in northern or arctic regions and winters in southern United States or Mediterranean regions [syn: red-backed sandpiper , Erolia alpina ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A dunlin is a wading bird. Dunlin may also refer to: USS Dunlin , several ships in the U.S. Navy
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A small wading bird, ''Calidris alpina'', found along the coast and with a distinctive black belly patch in its breeding plumage. A type of stint.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dunlin \Dun"lin\, n. [Prob. of Celtic origin; cf. Gael. dun hill (E. dune), and linne pool, pond, lake, E. lin.] (Zo["o]l.) A species of sandpiper ( Tringa alpina ); -- called also churr , dorbie , grass bird , and red-backed sandpiper . It is found both ...
Usage examples of dunlin.
Wilson snipe, sandhill crane, Gadwall and canvas-back and red-bill Merganser ducks, American widgeon, red-necked grebe, Dunlin sandpiper, red-winged starling, and scores of equally fantastic prey.
As flocks of dunlin or redshank stream and wheel and soar and quiver over our estuaries, so above the great tide-flooded cultivated regions of these worlds the animated clouds of avians maneuvered, each cloud a single center of consciousness.
It was as though the spontaneous evolutions of many distinct flocks of redshank and dunlin were multiplied a thousand-fold in complexity, and subordinated to a single ever-developing terpsichorean theme.
As flocks of dunlin or redshank stream and wheel and soar and quiver over.
Most were still asleep, heads tucked into their back feathers, sanderlings, dunlins, sandpipers.
He was a little taller than Dunlin, much broader than Staniel, and more muscular than me.
Dunlin and Staniel, but in it Dunlin had taken all the darkness and strength, whereas his younger brother was like a yellow reed.
For example, Staniel has disturbed your rest to ask about His Majesty without bothering to thank you for bringing Dunlin back in the first place.
Dixon writes, "vast flights of dunlins often appear upon the mud-flats towards the end of August, and remain for the winter.
Wave ripples on the sand: the traces of annelids, solens, clams: a distant flight of dunlins, close-packed, flying fast, all wheeling together and changing colour as they wheeled.