Calidris ruficollis (Pallas, 1776)

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 : 33

** RED-NECKED STINT Calidris ruficollis # Near Threatened

Status Palearctic migrant. Very common passage migrant in New Guinea (Bishop 2006) . On Biak, Hoogerheide collected one at Mokmer on the south coast, 14 February 1954 ( Junge 1956); 14 November 2017: two (A. Walker, eBird checklist S46415753); 23 August 2019: four (K. Behrens, eBird checklist S 59190619); 26 September 2019: four (P. Lansley, eBird checklist S88251028), all at the tsunami swamp. 13 January 1994: four on Owi (P. Gregory in litt. 2000).