A common name for any of the smaller Sandpipers (genus Tringa), esp. the Dunlin. Also a provincial name for the Sanderling (Calidris arenaria).

A common small migratory sandpiper found throughout the Holarctic region, Calidris alpina, which has a downcurved black bill and black legs, and (in…

Any of various waders, esp. the dunlin, Calidris alpina, the sanderling, Calidris alba, the ringed plover Charadrius hiaticula, and the common…

A local name for various small birds frequenting the sea-shore, as (a) the ringed plover, Ægialitis hiaticula; (b) various sandpipers, as the dunlin…

The dunlin (Calidris alpina) in its winter plumage, formerly thought to be a separate species.

Now North American regional. Any of several waders, esp. the dunlin, Calidris alpina, the least sandpiper, C. minutilla, the semipalmated sandpiper…

A small migratory snipe, Lymnocryptes minimus, breeding in northern Eurasia.

The purre or stint.

A small wading bird, esp. the dunlin, Calidris alpina.

Any of various small shorebirds or waders, esp. a sandpiper. Cf. sand lark, n. 1.

= sand lark, n.

A local name for several of the sandpipers, as the dunlin, and the knot.

The dunlin, Calidris alpina, which frequently accompanies the golden plover (Pluvialis apricaria) in the summer in Scotland; (more widely) any of…

British regional. Any of various small shorebirds or waders, esp. a sandpiper. Cf. sand laverock, n.

North American. = red-backed sandpiper n. at red-backed, adj. compounds.

the dunlin, Calidris alpina (family Scolopacidae), which has a reddish-brown back in the breeding season.

attributive and in other combinations, as ebb-tide, etc. Also ebb-sleeper n. a bird; = dunlin, n.

= oxbird, n.

U.S. regional. The dunlin, Calidris alpina. Now historical.

= plover's page, n.

a sand-plover or sandpiper (Newton).