The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy
Author
Bishop, K. David
text
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club
2023
2023-03-06
143
1
3
62
journal article
298463
10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2
6028cf6b-e944-40d1-b774-7caa1c970409
2513-9894
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805136AB-F3FE-4C77-85AC-E37423156B6D
METALLIC STARLING
Aplonis metallica
#
Local name
Man Sinèm (Sansundi).
Range
A. m. inornata
Biak, Supiori, Owi, Numfor;
A. m.
metallica
Yapen, Mios Num. Beehler & Pratt (2016)
incorrectly listed Biak under
metallica
as well as
inornata
.
Status
Resident. Obtained by four collectors and seen by nearly all visitors. Widespread and common in scrub with remnant forest trees, tall secondary woodland and forest edge.
13 January 1994
: 30 on Owi (P. Gregory
in litt
. 2000), where also seen by
Gibbs (1993)
.