---
title: "Biegus zmienny"
description: "Calidris alpina — Ptaki. The dunlin (Calidris alpina) is a small wader in the genus Calidris."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/dunlin
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Biegus zmienny

> Calidris alpina — Ptaki. The dunlin (Calidris alpina) is a small wader in the genus Calidris.

- Scientific name: *Calidris alpina*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `sea` (Morze i wybrzeże), `arctic` (Arktyka)
- iNaturalist observations: 55569
- Wikidata: [Q26650](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26650)
- iNaturalist taxon: [3857](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/3857)

## Names

- en: Dunlin
- de: Alpenstrandläufer
- es: Playero dorso rojo
- fr: Bécasseau variable
- nl: Bonte strandloper
- pt: Pilrito-comum
- pl: Biegus zmienny

## Countries with the most observations

US (19811), CA (4750), RU (4122), GB (3163), PT (2528), ES (2339), FR (1946), DE (1325), IT (1064), TW (926), DK (834), CN (542)

## Summary

The dunlin (Calidris alpina) is a small wader in the genus Calidris. The English name is a dialect form of "dunling", first recorded in 1531–1532. It derives from dun, "dull brown", with the suffix -ling, meaning a person or thing with the given quality.
It is a circumpolar breeder in Arctic or subarctic regions. Birds that breed in western Europe are short-distance migrants largely staying on western and southern European and northwest African coasts; those breeding in far northern Europe and Asia are long-distance migrants, wintering south to Africa, southeast and west Asia. Birds that breed in Alaska and the Canadian…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunlin

## Photo

![Biegus zmienny](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/dunlin/medium.jpg)

Photo: russnamitz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/241224952

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/dunlin?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).