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- noun Plural form of
dunlin .
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Examples
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Our plan was to proceed by floatplane from the Colville to Teshekpuk Lake, where we would resupply a group of biologists engaged in a Wildlife Conservation Society study of shorebirds, including sandpipers, curlews, and dunlins.
The Flight Steve Ersinghaus 2009
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Though they are tangled on the shore all the godwits go at once, leaving spaces where they stood among the dunlins.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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Species sighted include: dunlins, black-bellied plovers, short-billed dowitchers, white ibises, great blue herons, snowy egrets, Louisiana herons, black ducks mallards and pintails.
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There were thousands of sandpipers in enormous flocks, mixed with king plovers, dunlins, and turnstones, which followed the ebb tides, and returned again in whirling clouds before the oncoming floods.
A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell Wilfred Thomason Grenfell 1902
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Migration peaks end of April/first of May with tens of thousands of birds: red knots, least and western sandpipers, sanderlings, dunlins, short-billed dowitchers, black-bellied and semipalmated plovers, greater yellowlegs - all doing their best to avoid hunting Peregrine falcons and merlins.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Grays Harbor Shorebird Festival: If you can afford that tank of gas, there are some free events and activities included in the festival, which marks the annual spring migration of thousands of dunlins, sanderlings, sandpipers, short-billed dowitchers, greater yellowlegs and more.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Anderson said he has seen more falcon strikes on dunlins at this one site in two days than during some entire winters.
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Migratory birds, such as Brent geese, wigeons - a species of duck - and wading birds named dunlins are among the species affected by the cold weather.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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Migratory birds, such as Brent geese, wigeons - a species of duck - and wading birds named dunlins are among the species affected by the cold weather.
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Anderson said he has seen more falcon strikes on dunlins at this one site in two days than during some entire winters.
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