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 **WOOD SANDPIPER Tringa glareola Local names Man Awèr, Man Do Marmèr (Sansundi). Status Palearctic migrant. Common Palearctic passage migrant and winter resident in New Guinea ( Bishop 2006, Beehler & Pratt 2016). First recorded on Biak on 29 August 2015 , a flock of c. 60 that arrived in the tsunami swamp at dusk ( KDB , eBird checklist S25951144). Thereafter regularly seen at the same site. 14 November 2017 : four ( A. Walker , eBird checklist S46415753); 23 August 2019 : two ( K. Behrens , eBird checklist S 59190619); 27 August 2019 : eight ( P. Chaon , eBird checklist S 59302575); 24 and 27 September 2019 : ten ( P. Lansley , eBird checklists S 64696799, S 88251028).