Falco peregrinus, Tunstall, 1771

*PEREGRINE FALCON Falco peregrinus View in CoL

Range F. p. calidus and F. p. ernesti Biak, Yapen.

Status Palearctic winter visitor ( F. p. calidus) and rare visitor ( F. p. ernesti). There are few records of resident ernesti and even fewer of the Palearctic migrant calidus anywhere in New Guinea (Beehler & Pratt 2016; KDB & SvB). 5 April 2006: Dutson (2006) saw one of the small resident subspecies in flight at dusk; June 2008: a member of a bird tour group saw one in southern Biak but without details ( van Beirs 2008 ) ; February 2011: two F. p. calidus ( Germi et al. 2013). 13 January 1994: P. Gregory ( in litt. 2000) saw an adult with a rather pale grey mantle, perched in a dead tree on Owi , which was clearly not resident ernesti but presumably one of the Palearctic migrant subspecies .