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 *HOUSE SPARROW Passer domesticus Range Biak, Yapen (KDB & JD). Status Resident, introduced. First recorded 3 January 1994 , one male and two females at Biak airport, carrying food to a nest under the eaves of a warehouse ( Holmes 1997 ). Intriguingly, this species is not well known in Indonesia (Coates & Bishop 1997, Eaton et al . 2021 ) although recently recorded at Sorong (Beehler & Pratt 2016) and a number of locations in Papua New Guinea , the nearest to Biak being Tabubil (Beehler & Pratt 2016).