**LITTLE TERN Sternula albifrons

Status Occasional visitor. Regular visitor from South-East Asia throughout coastal New Guinea during September ‒early May (Beehler & Pratt 2016). An unknown subspecies breeds in West New Britain (Bishop 1983) and Bougainville (Hadden 1981) and may nest on the New Guinea mainland. The sole Biak records are: 23 October 1997, four near Woniki village, on south-east coast of Biak (SvB) and 27 April 2007, one between the Padaido Islands and south coast of Biak (T. Boucher, eBird checklist S26960957).