**BROWN NODDY Anous stolidus #

Local name Man Gonswan (Sansundi).

Status Regular visitor. Common in most New Guinea waters and breeds on small offshore islands (see Bishop & Hacking 2020). On Biak known from a single specimen collected by Hoogerheide at sea north of Biak on 7 July 1954 (Junge 1956). Recently, regularly observed off southern Biak and Supiori where it often forms mixed flocks with other species of terns, Sula leucogaster and frigatebirds Fregata spp. 6 August 2015: ten near Rani (N. Voaden, eBird checklist S24512191).