How To Use Dunlin In A Sentence
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I thought it dangerously late in the season for controlled heather burning, a real threat to ground nesting birds like red grouse and dunlin.
Country diary: East Cheshire Hills
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It is the home of the lapwing, curlew, golden plover, dunlin and red grouse.
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Watching from the Breydon Bridge observation hide at high tide, I suddenly became aware of hundreds of dunlin taking wing and climbing high above the saltings.
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Species such as red knot ( '' Calidris canutus '') and ruddy turnstone ( '' Arenaria interpres '') are inferred to have had much larger populations and more extensive breeding areas during glacial stages, although others, such as dunlin ( '' C. alpina ''), exhibit evidence of range fragmentation during glacial stages leading to the evolution of distinct geographically restricted infraspecific taxa.
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels
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But it is the dunlin which are the most methodical.
Country diary: Benbecula
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It is the home of the lapwing, curlew, golden plover, dunlin and red grouse.
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You can see red knots, dunlins, and sandpipers as they rest and forage for food on the beaches, using the untouched island habitat as a safe haven during their journey south.
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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
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The highest number of birds shot were dunlin, a small flocking species typically attracted to foreshore habitat such as the mudflats on Sea Island's western tip.
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Buoyant as a duck, slender as a sandpiper, small as a dunlin.
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Two dunlins shouldering each other out of the way, a laughing gull giving itself a shower, one lone willet, huge among the little spotties.
FLIGHT LESSONS
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While the tide was very slow to move the birds in, eventually the wrybills came my way and I crawled their way, until finally I was just 1.5 m from the nearest wrybill and 3 m from the dunlin.
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The most abundant are dunlin (Calidris alpina), bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica), curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) and redshank (Tringa totanus) all with populations of over 100,000 birds.
Atlantic coastal desert
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In the distance the shingle gave way to muddy sand and she could see dunlin and redshank at the water's edge.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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In the long-term the scheme will provide ‘compensation’ for other areas where development means natural habitats are lost and they are hoping to attract species such as redshank, dunlin, curlew, golden plover and shelduck.
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Breeding origin and migration pattern of dunlin ( '' Calidris alpina '') revealed by mitochondrial DNA analysis.
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels
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The large numbers of birds in the area, including nationally important numbers of golden plover, curlew, dunlin, merlin and twite, make it a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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Greater yellowlegs, spotted sandpipers, black turnstones, surfbirds, sanderlings, least sandpipers, and dunlins also had their best year in 2008.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
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The large numbers of birds in the area, including nationally important numbers of golden plover, curlew, dunlin, merlin and twite, make it a Site of Special Scientific Interest.
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Arctic breeding shorebirds such as the dunlin, whimbrel and western sandpiper converge on the rich feeding grounds along the coasts from Louisiana to Florida.
Spill’s danger to migratory birds
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Flotsam gives shelter to sandflies and other food for the small flocks of wading birds that kept wheeling in like a single organism, landing or taking off on the instant in perfect unison: sandlings, ringed plover, gadwall and dunlin.
Wildwood
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Other breeding waders include 19 drumming snipe, 3 pairs of dunlin and 4 pairs of ringed plover.
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Along the tide line the dunlin were busy, probing the sand with their bills.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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We could imagine the plaintive call of curlews just back from some salty estuary and the solitary piping of a dunlin, seemingly lost in all that bogland waste.
Country diary: Langsett, Peak District
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We released all dunlins by mid-March each year, before spring migration.
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There were 29 Hudsonian godwits, several whimbrels, 2 dunlins, greater shearwaters and black tern.
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Dunlin and turnstone augur us where, how and when best as to burial of carcass, fuselage of dump and committal of noisance.
Finnegans Wake
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The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
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For some shorebird species, such as willets and dunlin, we had diet data from BBH, although diets for several other species at this site are unknown.
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The most abundant are dunlin (Calidris alpina), bar-tailed godwit (Limosa lapponica), curlew sandpiper (Calidris ferruginea) and redshank (Tringa totanus) all with populations of over 100,000 birds.
Atlantic coastal desert
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An even bigger threat from the proposed wind farm is potential damage to the peatland breeding habitat of wading birds like greenshank, dunlin, and golden plover.
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We could imagine the plaintive call of curlews just back from some salty estuary and the solitary piping of a dunlin, seemingly lost in all that bogland waste.
Country diary: Langsett, Peak District
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In the distance the shingle gave way to muddy sand and she could see dunlin and redshank at the water's edge.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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You can see red knots, dunlins, and sandpipers as they rest and forage for food on the beaches, using the untouched island habitat as a safe haven during their journey south.
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The animals eat the eggs of wading birds including dunlin, lapwing, redshank and snipe.
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He comes to see the curlews and dunlin, the Brent geese and sparrowhawks, "no longer . . . as representatives of their species" but as individual beings, with homes, ages and "histories.
Life in the Woods
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Flotsam gives shelter to sandflies and other food for the small flocks of wading birds that kept wheeling in like a single organism, landing or taking off on the instant in perfect unison: sandlings, ringed plover, gadwall and dunlin.
Wildwood
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We used an open-circuit respirometer to determine resting metabolic rates of 17 wintering dunlins captured on Tomales Bay.
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A flight of dunlin danced over the top of the water, wheeling and swooping in the cold, clear wind.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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Suddenly hundreds of lapwing, redshank and dunlin all took wing, rapidly climbing high above the flooded flats.
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A shorebird called the dunlin is found by the thousands in the reserve.
Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Washington
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In the distance the shingle gave way to muddy sand and she could see dunlin and redshank at the water's edge.
MIDNIGHT IS A LONELY PLACE
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Watching from the Breydon Bridge observation hide at high tide, I suddenly became aware of hundreds of dunlin taking wing and climbing high above the saltings.
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The possibility of arctic birds like the red knot and the dunlin disappearing from Scotland's shores is yet another symptom of a sickening planet.
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The development of this wildlife site is ongoing with new hides to aid the study and photography of shelduck, dunlin, lapwing, golden plover and shoveller duck that have recently bred on Mangan's Lough.
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You can see red knots, dunlins, and sandpipers as they rest and forage for food on the beaches, using the untouched island habitat as a safe haven during their journey south.
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Species such as red knot ( '' Calidris canutus '') and ruddy turnstone ( '' Arenaria interpres '') are inferred to have had much larger populations and more extensive breeding areas during glacial stages, although others, such as dunlin ( '' C. alpina ''), exhibit evidence of range fragmentation during glacial stages leading to the evolution of distinct geographically restricted infraspecific taxa.
Late-Quaternary changes in arctic terrestrial ecosystems, climate, and ultraviolet radiation levels
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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
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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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