**LESSER SAND PLOVER Charadrius mongolus #

Range C. m. mongolus Biak.

Status Palearctic migrant. Common Palearctic migrant to New Guinea (Bishop 2006) but just three records on Biak. 14 February 1954: one collected by Hoogerheide at Mokmer, south coast (Junge 1956); 9 January 1997: one with two Greater Sand Plovers C. leschenaultii on the coast near Marauw (SvB); 23 August 2019: one (K. Behrens, eBird checklist S59190619) or two (P. Chaon, eBird checklist S59302575) at the tsunami swamp.