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
11642130
805136AB-F3FE-4C77-85AC-E37423156B6D
*GRAY’S GRASSHOPPER WARBLER
Locustella fasciolata
#
Range
Biak, Supiori, Owi, Yapen.
Status
Palearctic migrant. Widespread Palearctic migrant throughout Wallacea (Coates & Bishop 1997) and western New
Guinea (Beehler & Pratt 2016)
.
King (1979)
collected a male in secondary woodland in southern Biak, in
December 1962
. KDB & JD found it common during October‒April. Several were recorded at
c
.
100 m
intervals in low scrub along most roads in southern Biak.
13 and 15 January 1997
: one heard singing and calling near Sansundi (SvB). Recorded on Owi in
February 1991
(
Gibbs 1993
) and on
13 January 1994
(P. Gregory
in litt
. 2000).