dunlin

1 The birds include surf scoters, dunlins, Western sandpipers and eared grebes.

2 I’m gaping at thousands of western sandpipers and dunlins twisting and turning against the sky creating an undulating kaleidoscope of color.

3 But by the time an hour had gone by, Barlow had captured this photograph of a dunlin taking flight with little time to spare before the wave hit the shore.

4 Sightings in Nauset Marsh in Eastham included a royal tern, a Caspian tern, a black skimmer, a dunlin, and 3 American oystercatchers.

5 On a recent rainy day here, thousands of soaring dunlins wheeled across the gunmetal sky in the cohesive flock choreography known as a murmuration before they set down in a soggy rice field.

6 There were thousands of sandpipers in enormous flocks, mixed with king plovers, dunlins, and turnstones, which followed the ebb tides, and returned again in whirling clouds before the oncoming floods.

7 The red-backed sandpiper, or American dunlin, is one of the larger members of the genus and quite plentiful on the Coast marshes, but it is seldom seen in the interior valleys except during its migrations.

8 The first warning was a sudden eruption from it, a flock of dunlin, a flock which then passed seawards in a regimented flight that was an alternate flash of light and a swift shadow.

9 A cloud of tiny dunlin, more compact than starlings, turned in the air with the noise of a train.

10 His gaze alights on a dunlin, a wading bird picking for worms in the flooded plain around the Minsmere river in Suffolk.

11 He would tell of immense flocks of widgeon, of banks of brent geese, and clouds of dunlin.

12 Some sandpiper groups sound like fancy Victorian musical instruments or board games: whimbrels and willets, dowitchers, dunlins, shanks, and tattlers.

13 Many others resemble works of art: the rock bunting features little squiggles like someone writing in the dark, while the smudgy brown dots of the dunlin appear to have been applied by a water-colourist.

14 Reynolds said he will always remember the call he got that first year from a biologist reporting on a flooded field filled with 5,000 small wading birds called dunlin.

15 It is true that it brought down quite a wisp of dunlins, but then there was almost a cloud of them to fire at.

16 At this spring moult a special “nuptial” plumage is often assumed, as for example in many of the Limicolae, e.g. god-wits, knots, dunlin, ruff.

17 Single sandhill cranes in Northampton and Hadley, an upland sandpiper and a dunlin in Northampton, and an American bittern in the marsh on Flat Iron Road in Cummington.

18 They saw cinnamon teal and hummingbirds near the coast rather than inland, and western sandpipers and dunlins were switching to kelp flies on the beach instead of insects in a flooded meadow.

19 The best way to approach them is to drive from Leenane Inn to the Deel River, due north, and then strike west over a wet bog, full of dunlins, plover, and curlew.

20 Here I see Arctic tern from Antarctica, dunlin from Asia, bar-tailed godwits from Australia, yellow wagtails from Africa, and so on.

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