**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).