Dunlin
DUNL- Scientific: Calidris alpina
- Spanish: Correlimos Común
- French: Bécasseau variable
- Family: Sandpipers
- Bird Code: DUNL
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Habitat
Common along coasts on sandy beaches and mudflats. Less common inland but can be found at wetlands and lakes and on tundra in breeding season.
Range
Nests on Arctic coasts in the summer, migrates though much of the United States to winter along U.S. and Mexican coasts.
Although during breeding season, this sandpiper can be a rich rusty color, the meaning of this bird’s name more accurately describes it’s drab non-breeding plumage: Dunlin is derived from “dunling,” the oldest known English name for the species dating back to 1531. “Dunling” blends the English word “dun,” meaning gray-brown, with the diminutive suffix “-ling.” As a result, “Dunlin” can be interpreted as “little brown job.”