Tringa glareola, Linnaeus, 1758

Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 143 (1), pp. 3-62 : 32

**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).