Dunlin (Calidris alpina)
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Introduction
 
Methods
 
Results
 
Acknowledgments
 
Literature Cited
 
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Species Accounts, Maps, Histograms, and Appendices
 
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Family Scolopacidae

Body Size: Medium
Foraging Guild: aquatic prober/gleaner
Foraging Habitat: Water depth - wet to 6 cm; vegetative cover - bare to sparse
Migration Distance: Intermediate
Migration Pattern: Jump
Dispersion: Moderately dispersed; 60% of total maximum sightings occur in 7 spring and 6 fall 0.1° lat-long blocks.

Six sites with highest counts (see Appendix for more information):

1. Minnewaukan Flats, Devil’s Lake, North Dakota

2. Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, Texas

3. Grand Terre, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana

4. Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge, Texas

5 Bolivar Flats, Galveston Island, Texas

6. Between Duson and Crowley, Louisiana

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