Crossword clues for dunlin
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 in Europe and Americ
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.
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
The dunlin (Calidris alpina) is a small wader, sometimes separated with the other " stints" in Erolia. The English name is a dialect form of "dunling", first recorded in 1531–2. It derives from "dun", "dull brown ", with the -ling suffix meaning "concerned with". The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific ''alpina '' is from Latin and means "of high mountains", in this case referring to the Alps.
It is a circumpolar breeder in Arctic or subarctic regions. Birds that breed in northern Europe and Asia are long-distance migrants, wintering south to Africa, southeast Asia and the Middle East. Birds that breed in Alaska and the Canadian Arctic migrate short distances to the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America, although those nesting in Northern Alaska overwinter in Asia. Many dunlins winter along the Iberian south coast.
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.