Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763)

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 : 39

***SHORT-EARED OWL Asio flammeus

Range Biak.

Status Vagrant. The first documented record for the entire Australo-Papuan region and Indonesia. This Western and Northern Hemisphere species is a rare winter visitor to the Philippines ( Dickinson et al. 1991) and has occurred twice in northern Borneo including one at sea off Labuan (September 2014) ( Eaton et al. 2021). 13 November 2022: K. Behrens (in litt. 2022) flushed one alongside the road at the ‘tsunami swamp. Seen well and the diagnostic features were noted by an experienced observer.