BIAK LEAF WARBLER Seicercus misoriensis # RR, Vulnerable

Range Biak, Supiori.

Taxonomy Beehler & Pratt (2016) noted that the Biak taxon is very distinctive and split it as a separate species from nearby Numfor Leaf Warbler S. maforensis and mainland New Guinea Island Leaf Warbler S. poliocephalus .

Status Endemic species. Obtained by two collectors but not Ripley (Mayr & Meyer de Schauensee 1939). Seen by very few visitors although eBird records indicate that since 2018 it has been regularly encountered in forest at Warafri in south-east Biak; Gibbs (1993) saw it near Korrido, Supiori, in 1991. The species has a notably long bill and legs, both of which are strikingly coloured (Fig. 14); the difference in biometrics from other leaf warbler taxa presumably relates to a difference in behavioral traits, which further study should seek to elucidate.