Bird
Dunlin
Calidris alpina
Passes through Arkansas on migration. Found in all 75 counties, across 3 habitats.
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 3

At a glance
- Group
- Birds
- Here
- On migration
- Nesting
- Not known to nest here
- Range
- All 75 counties
- Habitats
- 3
- Habitat models
- Winter
Where it lives
The places its habitat model includes. It is not found everywhere a habitat occurs.
Habitats in Arkansas 3
Each habitat page lists the plants and wildlife also found there.
Disturbed and introduced wetlands
Wet ground taken over by weedy or introduced plants after disturbance, such as common reed, Chinese tallow or tamarisk stands; the upland counterpart is roadsides, fields and disturbed ground.
Forested wetlands with standing water much of the year, such as cypress and gum swamps.
Roadsides, fields and disturbed ground
Ground opened by people: roadsides, old fields, pastures, fencerows and lots.
Other habitats in its models (41)
Land cover, or classes with no habitat page in Arkansas.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Sandy Beach Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Beach Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Lake/River/Pond) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore (Beach/Dune) Winter.
- Unconsolidated Shore Winter.
- Upper Texas Coast Beach Winter.
- Southeast Florida Beach Winter.
- South Florida Shell Hash Beach Winter.
- Florida Panhandle Beach Vegetation Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Sea Island Beach Winter.
- Southwest Florida Beach Winter.
- Texas Coastal Bend Beach Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Dune and Maritime Grassland Winter.
- Southwest Florida Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Central and Upper Texas Coast Dune and Coastal Grassland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Indian River Lagoon Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Salt and Brackish Marsh Winter.
- Mississippi Sound Salt and Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Tidal Salt Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Salt-Brackish Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Clay-Based Carolina Bay Herbaceous Wetland Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Streamhead Seepage Swamp - Pocosin - and Baygall Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Large Natural Lakeshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Southern Tidal Wooded Swamp Winter.
- South Florida Everglades Sawgrass Marsh Winter.
- Floridian Highlands Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Embayed Region Tidal Freshwater Marsh Winter.
- Florida Big Bend Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Northern Fresh and Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Southern Coastal Plain Herbaceous Seepage Bog Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Central Fresh-Oligohaline Tidal Marsh Winter.
- Atlantic and Gulf Coastal Plain Interdunal Wetland Winter.
- South Florida Wet Marl Prairie Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Savanna and Wet Prairie Winter.
- Texas Saline Coastal Prairie Winter.
- East Gulf Coastal Plain Southern Depression Pondshore Winter.
- Atlantic Coastal Plain Depression Pondshore Winter.
- South Florida Freshwater Slough and Gator Hole Winter.
- Texas-Louisiana Coastal Prairie Slough Winter.
Seasons in Arkansas
- Migratory: does not nest here, in all 75 counties.
Also found in this habitat
Plants 101
Plants named in NatureServe descriptions of these habitats that grow in Arkansas. Shared habitat, not food.
- Red MapleAcer rubrum
- Drummonds Red MapleAcer rubrum var. drummondii
- Giant CaneArundinaria gigantea
- Mexican Mosquito FernAzolla mexicana
- Small BeggarticksBidens discoidea
- False NettleBoehmeria cylindrica
- Prickly Bog SedgeCarex atlantica
- Cypress-knee SedgeCarex decomposita
- Blue Wood SedgeCarex flaccosperma
- Bladder SedgeCarex intumescens
- Cypress-swamp SedgeCarex joorii
- Louisiana SedgeCarex louisianica
- Hop SedgeCarex lupulina
- Sharp-scale SedgeCarex oxylepis
- Blunt Broom SedgeCarex tribuloides
- American HornbeamCarpinus caroliniana
- Water HickoryCarya aquatica
- SugarberryCeltis laevigata
- ButtonbushCephalanthus occidentalis
- Common HornwortCeratophyllum demersum
- Virginia DayflowerCommelina virginica
- Green HawthornCrataegus viridis
- Swamp LoosestrifeDecodon verticillatus
- Variable WitchgrassDichanthelium commutatum
Wildlife 226
Other animals whose habitat models include the same habitats in Arkansas. Not sighting records.
- Eastern Screech-owlMegascops asio
- Eastern TowheePipilo erythrophthalmus
- European StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Great Horned OwlBubo virginianus
- Great-tailed GrackleQuiscalus mexicanus
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- Henslow's SparrowAmmodramus henslowii
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicus
- Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimus
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Mississippi KiteIctinia mississippiensis
- Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalis
- Northern ParulaParula americana
- Northern ShovelerAnas clypeata
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
NatureServe Explorer, CC BY 4.0. USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models.
Sources
- USGS Gap Analysis Project habitat models (2001)
- USGS GAP winter habitat model for Dunlin
- USGS Gap Analysis Project range maps (2001), modeled by watershed; migratory gives no dates
- NatureServe Explorer (CC BY 4.0), habitat names
- US Census TIGER/Line counties
- Names follow the USGS Gap Analysis Project (2001)











































