<documentid="1874055D2389960CC427C334D265EBC6"ID-CLB-Dataset="298463"ID-DOI="10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2"ID-GBIF-Dataset="6028cf6b-e944-40d1-b774-7caa1c970409"ID-ISSN="2513-9894"ID-Zenodo-Dep="11642130"ID-ZooBank="805136AB-F3FE-4C77-85AC-E37423156B6D"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="carolina"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="carolina"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="carolina"IM.metadata_approvedBy="carolina"IM.tables_approvedBy="carolina"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="carolina"IM.treatments_approvedBy="carolina"checkinTime="1718072374117"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Bishop, K. David"docDate="2023"docId="03AB878AFFFEE115A38FFDDCFF1AFCE6"docLanguage="en"docName="BullBritOrnitholClub.143.1.3-62.pdf"docOrigin="Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 143 (1)"docStyle="DocumentStyle:EFA7F293C51FD4806C5290561C16F223.1:BullBritOrnitholClub.2017-.journal_article"docStyleId="EFA7F293C51FD4806C5290561C16F223"docStyleName="BullBritOrnitholClub.2017-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="1"docTitle="Artamus leucorhynchus"docType="treatment"docVersion="11"lastPageNumber="46"masterDocId="FF92FFF2FFD2E139A31FFFF7FFCAFF80"masterDocTitle="The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy"masterLastPageNumber="62"masterPageNumber="3"pageNumber="46"updateTime="1718322499255"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-NC-4.0">
<mods:titleid="7D3F28BE36F267EB53C944374E0A1599">The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy</mods:title>
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and
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but without notes. Included to alert future observers as its presence is quite plausible. The species’ ability to cross water and colonise remote islands is illustrated by its global distribution (
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). Widespread throughout open and lightly wooded country of lowland mainland New
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Guinea (
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has occupied many islands in the south-west Pacific. Thus, its presence would not be surprising on Biak (note, not yet Supiori) given extensive areas of suitable habitat in the south of the island.