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).