6 Waders - Baltic Dunlin
1 Kentish Plover> / 2 Hudsonian Whimbrel> / 3 Hudsonian Dunlin>  / 4 Interesting Wader> / 5 Knots>  / 6 Baltic Dunlin> / 7 Sanderlings Calidris alba in a storm> / 7A Sanderlings ready to fly home> / 8 Little Stint Calidris minuta> / 9 Eskimo Curlew Numenius borealis>  / 10 Dunlin Calidris alpina in juvenile plumage> / 11 Whimbrel Numenius phaeopus> / 12 Golden Plover> / 13 Cannibalism in the cold> / 14 A plumage for all seasons> / 15 American Golden Plover Pluvialis dominica> / 16 Pacific Golden Plover Pluvialis fulva> / 17 European Curlew Numenius a.arquata> / 18 Eastern or Russian Curlew Numenius a.orientalis> / 19 Steppe Curlews Numenius arquata suschkini> / 20a Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia> / 20b Wilson's Plover Charadrius wilsonia> /  21 The Greenland ringed plover> / 22 The Ringed plover>  / 23 young Ringed Plovers Charadrius hiaticula> / 24 Post-breeding & immature plumages of Sanderling Calidris alba> / 25 Dunlin calidris alpina - Immature and other plumages of - > / 26 Brittish Curlew entering port of Rotterdam>/ 27 Purple Sandpiper Calidris maritima>

>>>download and read in .pdf:  Report on wader ringing in Rhine-Meuse delta 1984-dutch language-9 mb<<<
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The Baltic Dunlin Calidris alpina schinzii is the rarest of the Dunlin races in Europe.
It's world population is estimated to be no more than 6,000 individuals. It has occassionally
bred in The Netherlands. It is this Dunlin that lives after it's nickname 'Plover's page". In the
Dutch delta area it can be found in groups of Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula during spring
migration (February-March), where they occur on the higher, more vegetated parts of the tidal
areas. They keep well apart from the more numerous Northern Dunlin Calidris alpina alpina
which occurs in the lower muddier parts. The Baltic Dunlin is the first to complete it's breeding
plumage (March).

>>>download and read in .pdf: Report on wader ringing in Rhine-Meuse delta 1984-85

(mainly in dutch language - 9 mb) download <<<

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Calidris alpina schinzii 19022008 Oostvoorne, The Netherlands

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       03 dec 2010