**MARSH SANDPIPER Tringa stagnatilis

Local names Man Awèr, Man Do Marmèr (Sansundi).

Status Palearctic migrant. Moderately common Palearctic migrant to New Guinea (Bishop 2006) . All records on Biak are at the tsunami swamp. 29 August 2015: one in flight (KDB, eBird checklist S25951144); 2 October 2015: two (R. Tizard, eBird checklist S51365737); singles, 14 November 2017 (A. Walker, eBird checklist S4641573), 23 August 2019 (K. Behrens, eBird checklist S59190619) and 26 September 2019 (P. Lansley, eBird checklist S88250909).