Species

Calidris alpina (Dunlin)

Calidris alpina. Photo: (c) Paul Reeves, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)

The dunlin (Calidris alpina) is a small wader, sometimes separated with the other “stints” in Erolia. The English name is a dialect form of “dunling”, first recorded in 1531–2. It derives from “dun”, “dull brown “, with the -ling suffix meaning “concerned with”. The genus name is from Ancient Greek kalidris or skalidris, a term used by Aristotle for some grey-coloured waterside birds. The specific alpina is from Latin and means “of high mountains”, in this…

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