BIAK BLACK FLYCATCHER Myiagra atra # RR, Near Threatened

Range Biak, Supiori, Owi, Rani, Numfor.

Status Teluk Cenderawasih Islands endemic. Obtained by four collectors including Ripley (Mayr & Meyer de Schauensee 1939) and recorded by most visitors. Widespread and generally common in well-developed secondary forest, selectively logged and primary forest to c. 400 m (KDB; Supiori). Mostly encountered in the midstorey and canopy of primary forest where frequent in mixed-species flocks of insectivores. 13 January 1994: one on Owi (P. Gregory in litt. 2000).

Breeding 26 April 2007: a nest was observed near Wirmaker. Occupied by a female, it was on an oblique branch c. 3.5 m above ground in a small tree on a slope. The nest was constructed of fine fibres, rotund and densely covered with small leaves on its outside (SvB). 25 August 2007: nest with three chicks on a horizontal branch c. 4 m above ground in rather open habitat with low trees; fed by male and female (Bengtsson 2007).