#0624 · 🐦 birds

Dunlin

🇳🇱 Bonte Strandloper ·Calidris alpina

NTnear threatened 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Paul Reeves · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Ad Konings · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Paul Donahue · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Ken Chamberlain · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Frans Vandewalle · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Paul Reeves · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands:© markusgmeiner · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Netherlands:© Robin Fokker · CC BY 4.0
9. Zoetermeer, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Hollands Kroon, Netherlands:© thegreatdodo · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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...

base stats

NL sightings 480iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 57,455iNaturalist observations
threat NTnear threatened

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).