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  • Fairfield Energy is raising the money to add production at its existing Dunlin oil fields in the North Sea, as well as for development and further exploration at other North Sea fields it owns.

    Fairfield Energy Sets IPO Terms 2010

  • Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, semipalmated plovers, sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, ruddy turnstones, and other shorebirds too far away to identify are all hanging out together.

    grackles, and ants, and stripers, and shorebirds, oh my! 2009

  • Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, semipalmated plovers, sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers, ruddy turnstones, and other shorebirds too far away to identify are all hanging out together.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Dunlin, black-bellied plovers, short-billed dowitchers, white ibis, great blue herons as well as black ducks, mallards and pintails have been recorded there.

    North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve 2007

  • The Dunlin, a migratory shorebird, goes through the area according to Wetlands International.

    Archive 2007-03-01 2007

  • The Dunlin, a migratory shorebird, goes through the area according to Wetlands International.

    Dongtan: China's First Eco-City 2007

  • I was appalled at the damage that the barrage did to this area and in particular the impact on the numbers of Redshank and Dunlin in the Bristol Channel.

    Archive 2006-04-01 2006

  • Dunlin and turnstone augur us where, how and when best as to burial of carcass, fuselage of dump and committal of noisance.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Dunlin, curlew, oyster-catchers, or gulls, left a gully just before I knew I was headed off again.

    Waiting for Daylight 1915

  • Dunlin; while he gives to them in his plates of that bird -- the little

    Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds John Ruskin 1859

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