**WANDERING TATTLER Tringa incana

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

Status Palearctic migrant. Scarce Palearctic migrant in western New Guinea (Beehler & Pratt 2016) . Late November 1996: one giving its diagnostic Whimbrel -like call near Wari, south Biak (Richardson 1997). An unusual record this far west (see Beehler & Pratt 2016).