Dunlin Running

A small bird with a black belly and long black downturned bill runs across the ground, wings stretched out
Photo By/Credit

Peter Pearsall/USFWS

Date Shot/Created
03/28/2023
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
The name “Dunlin” comes from the species’ first old English name “dunling”, meaning “gray-brown diminutive-ling” (also known as “little brown job” for the birders out there!)