Dunlin
Videos
The dunlin is a small wader in the genus Calidris. The English name is a dialect form of "dunling", first recorded in 1531–1532. It derives from dun, "dull brown", with the suffix -ling, meaning a per
Eggs, Collection Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
C. a. alpina in breeding plumage on spring migration, Spiekeroog, northern Germany
C.a. schinzii, Mellon Udrigle, Scotland
Little stint
Videos
The little stint is a very small wader. It breeds in arctic Europe and Asia, and is a long-distance migrant, wintering south to Africa and south Asia. It occasionally is a vagrant to North America and
Little stint (on the left) and dunlin in September at the mouth of the Reda river in Puck Bay in Poland. Both birds are juveniles.
Little stint, non breeding in February, Vasai, Maharashtra, India.
Mixed flock with the larger Terek sandpiper in Andhra Pradesh, India.