Differences in population density, territoriality, and food supply of dunlin on arctic and subarctic tundra.
Except during the three summer months, May, June, and July, the Dunlin is common on all the shores of Great Britain, where there are extensive reaches of sand or mud.
The habits of the European dunlin seem to be the same as those of our bird.
Manniche (1910) found the dunlin a common breeding bird on the northeast coast of Greenland.
Seton Gordon (1915), after giving a charming account of the breeding haunts of the dunlin in Scotland, has this to say about the solicitude of a devoted mother.
In natal down the young dunlinis similar to the young red-backed sandpiper, but is paler in color, more buffy, and less rufous.
The usual note of the Dunlin is harsh, and resembles the word purr--hence one of the bird's trivial names; during the breeding season it is a long drawn peezh.
During its residence on the coast the Dunlin is remarkably gregarious, assembling often in flocks of thousands, which, by preference seek such portions of the shore as are low-lying and muddy.
The Dunlin is absolutely the commonest Limicoline bird of the shore, and certainly the most widely dispersed.
It is a rather remarkable fact that the Dunlin is the only species of Tringa that nests in the British Islands.
As already mentioned, we also found in April the Dunlin nesting on the lower Guadalquivir, and our friend Mr. W.
We had, however, some reward for this enforced tramp in discovering the Dunlin (Tringa alpina) nesting at a point over a thousand miles south of any previous record of its breeding-range.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dunlin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
