Dunlin
Calidris alpina
The dunlin is a small wader in the genus Calidris. The English name is a dialect form of "dunling", first recorded in 1531–1532. It derives from dun, "dull brown", with the suffix -ling, meaning a person or thing with the given quality.
- Scientific name
- Calidris alpina
- Family
- Sandpipers and Allies
- IUCN status
- NT
- Birds of Conservation Concern
- Red