Dunlin

Scientific Name: Calidris alpina

Dunlin

Dunlin Fact File

Distribution: Widespread in northern Europe and North America

Conservation Status: Near Threatened

Subspecies: Ten

  • C. a. arctica: North-eastern Greenland
  • C. a. schinzii: South-eastern Greenland; Iceland; the British Isles to southern Scandinavia and the Baltic
  • C. a. alpina: Northern Scandinavia to north-western Siberia
  • C. a. centralis: North-central to north-eastern Siberia
  • C. a. sakhalina: Eastern Russia to the Chukotsk Peninsula
  • C. a. kistchinski: Sea of Okhotsk to Kuril Island and Kamchatka
  • C. a. actites: Sakhalin Island (off south-eastern Russia)
  • C. a. arcticola: North-western Alaska to north-western Canada
  • C. a. pacifica: Western and southern Alaska
  • C. a. hudsonia: Central Canada

Current conservation efforts

None

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