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What is a dunlin?

What is a dunlin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A small wading bird, Calidris alpina, found along the coast and having a distinctive black belly patch in its breeding plumage. A type of stint.
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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.
It is the home of the lapwing, curlew, golden plover, dunlin and red grouse.
At Kaolak River a dunlin was feeding and flying with a group of four semipalmated sandpipers.
He would tell of immense flocks of widgeon, of banks of brent geese, and clouds of dunlin.
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.
Next day in the same general area where winds had driven water on the sand, four semipalmated sandpipers were feeding with dunlin.

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