Scientific Name:
Calidris alpina
Dunlin Fact File
Distribution: Widespread in northern Europe and North America
Conservation Status: Least Concern
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
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Current conservation efforts
None
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