Dunlin

Dunlin
Calidris alpina alpina in breeding plumage on autumn migration in Latvia
Display song recorded in Cardiganshire, Wales
Conservation status
Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Scolopacidae
Genus:	Calidris
Species:	C. alpina
Binomial name
Calidris alpina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Range of C. alpina   Breeding migrant   Breeding resident   Non-breeding   Passage   Vagrant (seasonality uncertain)
Synonyms
Tringa alpina Linnaeus, 1758 Erolia alpina (Linnaeus, 1758) Pelidna alpina (Linnaeus, 1758)

The dunlin (Calidris alpina) 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.^[2]

It is a circumpolar breeder in Arctic or subarctic regions. Birds that breed in western Europe are short-distance migrants largely staying on western and southern European and northwest African coasts; those breeding in far northern Europe and Asia are long-distance migrants, wintering south to Africa, southeast Asia and the Middle East. Birds that breed in Alaska and the Canadian Arctic migrate short distances to the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America, although those nesting in northern Alaska overwinter in Asia.