**RED-NECKED STINT Calidris ruficollis # Near Threatened

Status Palearctic migrant. Very common passage migrant in New Guinea (Bishop 2006) . On Biak, Hoogerheide collected one at Mokmer on the south coast, 14 February 1954 (Junge 1956); 14 November 2017: two (A. Walker, eBird checklist S46415753); 23 August 2019: four (K. Behrens, eBird checklist S 59190619); 26 September 2019: four (P. Lansley, eBird checklist S88251028), all at the tsunami swamp. 13 January 1994: four on Owi (P. Gregory in litt. 2000).