**STREAKED SHEARWATER Calonectris leucomelas #

Range Common throughout Teluk Cenderawasih.

Status Palearctic migrant. Regular and common Palearctic migrant to New Guinea in the austral summer (mainly October ‒ March) and seasonally abundant in the north (Beehler & Pratt 2016, Bishop & Hacking 2020). 18 December 1962: c.35 between Biak and Yapen (King 1979). June 1990: KDB saw modest numbers west of Biak. Wardill & Nando (2000) reported c.16,000 off the north coast of the Bird’s Head, 30 December 1999.