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).