Editing Dunlin (section)

{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{For|the ships|USS Dunlin}}
{{Speciesbox
| status = NT
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |year=2024 |title=''Calidris alpina'' |amends=2024 |page=e.T22693427A255846610 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-2.RLTS.T22693427A255846610.en |access-date=28 October 2024}}</ref>
| image = Dunlin (Calidris alpina) in the Delaware Bay at Heislerville Wildlife Management Area, New Jersey, USA.png
| image_caption = C. a. hudsonia in breeding plumage
| image2 = Dunlin (Calidris alpina) (W CALIDRIS ALPINA R1 C13).ogg
| image2_caption = Display song recorded in [[Cardiganshire]], Wales
| taxon = Calidris alpina
| authority = ([[Carl Linnaeus|Linnaeus]], [[10th edition of Systema Naturae|1758]])
| range_map = CalidrisAlpinaIUCNver2018 2.png
| range_map_caption = Range of ''C. alpina''{{leftlegend|#00FF00|Breeding migrant|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#008000|Breeding resident|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#007FFF|Non-breeding|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#00FFFF|Passage|outline=gray}} {{leftlegend|#FF00FF|Vagrant (seasonality uncertain)|outline=gray}}
| synonyms = *''Tringa alpina'' {{small|Linnaeus,&nbsp;1758}}
*''Erolia alpina'' {{small|(Linnaeus,&nbsp;1758)}}
*''Pelidna alpina'' {{small|(Linnaeus,&nbsp;1758)}}
}}

The '''dunlin''' ('''''Calidris alpina''''') 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 person or thing with the given quality.<ref name=OED>{{Cite OED |Dunlin}}</ref>

It is a circumpolar breeder in [[Arctic]] or subarctic regions. Birds that breed in western Europe are short-distance [[bird migration|migrants]] largely staying on western and southern European and northwest African coasts; those breeding in far northern Europe and Asia are long-distance migrants, wintering south to Africa, southeast and west Asia. Birds that breed in [[Alaska]] and the Canadian Arctic migrate short distances to the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America, although those nesting in northern Alaska overwinter in Asia.