Actitis hypoleucos (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 : 33

COMMON SANDPIPER Actitis hypoleucos #

Local name Man Do Marmèr (Sansundi).

Range Biak, Supiori, Owi, Numfor, Yapen.

Status Palearctic migrant. Common Palearctic migrant to New Guinea (Bishop 2006) . Regular in small numbers in most coastal habitats on Biak and Supiori. 20 January 1954: Hoogerheide collected one at mudflats near Jediboer on the south coast; 14 February 1954: a second specimen from Mokmer, also on the south coast ( Junge 1956); 13 January 1994: five on Owi (P. Gregory in litt. 2000).