dunlin

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The Severn Estuary, where the celebrated naturalist Sir Peter Scott founded Slimbridge, the wildfowl refuge which became one of the world's most famous nature reserves, provides an 86,000-acre feeding ground for wild swans, geese and many thousands of wading birds, such as dunlin, turnstone, oystercatcher and ringed plover, from all over Europe.

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  1. noun A rust-brown and white sandpiper (Calidris alpina) native to northern regions of North America, Europe, and Asia.

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  • Now and again a seagull flew past, but all the wading-birds, the ringed plovers, dunlin, sandpipers and sanderlings, had disappeared from the flat, wet shore, frightened away first by the bathers as these ran across the sands and into the sea, and then too deeply suspicious of the crouching figure of Edward to return for the molluscs, the small Crustacea, the marine worms and the rest of their natural food. —  Death of a Burrowing Mole - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 62
  • Each winter, 68,000 birds including dunlin, redshank, pintail, wigeon and Bewick's swans find food and sanctuary along the river's muddy margins. —  Daily Express News Feeds
  • Laurie Walker, Katharine Colon and Sally Anderson were at Katama on March 7 and spotted numbers of dunlin, black-bellied plovers, four eastern meadowlarks, two snow geese and three red-tailed hawks. —  Vineyard Gazette - Top Stories
  • The Severn Estuary, where the celebrated naturalist Sir Peter Scott founded Slimbridge, the wildfowl refuge which became one of the world's most famous nature reserves, provides an 86,000-acre feeding ground for wild swans, geese and many thousands of wading birds, such as dunlin, turnstone, oystercatcher and ringed plover, from all over Europe. —  Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed
  • There's a good chance you will also see ringed plover, dunlin and the occasional curlew, although the latter begin returning to their nesting sites further inland about this time of the year. —  Whitehaven News headlines
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  1. dun2 + -lin(g)1.

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  1. A corruption of English dial. dunling, the proper form, from dun + diminutive -ling. Cf. dunbird, dunnock.
 

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