Dunlin/Breacóg (Calidris alpina)
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
www.markcarmodyphotography.com
The Dunlin, Calidris alpina, is a small wader, sometimes separated with the other "stints", in Erolia. It is a circumpolar breeder in Arctic or subarctic regions. Birds that breed in northern Europe and Asia are long-distance migrants, wintering south to Africa and southeast 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.
In Ireland, it is a summer visitor from NW Africa/SW Europe, winter visitor from Scandinavia to Siberia, and passage migrant from Greenland (heading south to winter in Africa). The largest flocks of Dunlin occur in Ireland during the mid-winter period.(wikipedia)
Taken in teh gloaming at Broadmeadows Estuary, Co. Dublin.
Dunlin/Breacóg (Calidris alpina)
Shorebirds of Ireland, Freshwater Birds of Ireland and The Birds of Ireland: A Field Guide with Jim Wilson.
www.markcarmodyphotography.com
The Dunlin, Calidris alpina, is a small wader, sometimes separated with the other "stints", in Erolia. It is a circumpolar breeder in Arctic or subarctic regions. Birds that breed in northern Europe and Asia are long-distance migrants, wintering south to Africa and southeast 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.
In Ireland, it is a summer visitor from NW Africa/SW Europe, winter visitor from Scandinavia to Siberia, and passage migrant from Greenland (heading south to winter in Africa). The largest flocks of Dunlin occur in Ireland during the mid-winter period.(wikipedia)
Taken in teh gloaming at Broadmeadows Estuary, Co. Dublin.