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Calidris acuminata

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**SHARP-TAILED SANDPIPER

Calidris acuminata

Status Palearctic migrant. Common passage migrant in New Guinea (Bishop 2006). Recorded on Biak as follows. 10 November 2017: five (A. Walker, eBird checklist S 46415319); 14 November 2017: six (A. Walker, eBird checklist S 46415753; Fig. 9); 23 August 2019: eight (K. Behrens, eBird checklist S 59190619); 26 September 2019: ten (P. Lansley, eBird checklist S88251028), all at the tsunami swamp.

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Published as part of Bishop, K. David, 2023, The avifauna of Biak Island, Papua, Indonesia with comments on status, conservation, natural history and taxonomy, pp. 3-62 in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club 143 (1) on page 33, DOI: 10.25226/bboc.v143i1.2023.a2, http://zenodo.org/record/11642130

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Horsfield
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Charadriiformes
Family
Scolopacidae
Genus
Calidris
Species
acuminata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Calidris acuminata (Horsfield, 1821) sec. Bishop, 2023