Butorides striata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 143 (1), pp. 3-62 : 23

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scientific name	Butorides striata
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STRIATED HERON Butorides striata View in CoL #

Local name Man Posow (Sansundi).

Range B. s. papuensis Biak, Supiori, Numfor, Yapen.

Status Resident. Obtained by two collectors including Ripley ( Mayr & Meyer de Schauensee 1939). Sparsely distributed and infrequently seen, mainly in coastal mangroves, very rarely on mudflats. 19 January 1995: seen on north coast of Biak (D. Holmes unpubl.). Recently small numbers (1‒3) fairly regularly recorded at the tsunami swamp.

Breeding Ripley noted an empty nest on a small mangrove island off Korrido, Supiori.