- The name Dunlin comes from dunling, the earliest known English name of the species, which dates back at least as far as 1531. Dunling is a compound of the English word dun(meaning gray-brown) and the diminutive -ling. So the name Dunlin essentially means “little brown job.”
Non-breeding birds
These beautiful shorebirds look much different and are much easier to identify from a distance when they have that black belly.
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