Records of Common Sandpiper Actitis Hypoleucos at High Elevation Wetlands on Java, Indonesia

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RECORDS OF COMMON SANDPIPER ACTITIS HYPOLEUCOS AT HIGH ELEVATION WETLANDS ON JAVA, INDONESIA

ARI HIDAYAT1, TONI ARTAKA2, IMAM TAUFIQURRAHMAN3, SHAIM BASYARI4 AND RAHMAT FADRIKAL5

1Biodiversity Society, Purwokerto, Central Java, INDONESIA. Email: [email protected] 2Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, Malang, East Java, INDONESIA. 3Yayasan Kutilang Indonesia, Yogyakarta, INDONESIA. 4Kelompok Pengamat Burung Bionic Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, INDONESIA. 5Kelompok Pengamat Burung Nycticorax Universitas Negeri Jakarta, INDONESIA.

The Common Sandpiper Actitis hypoleucos is known to waste and eutrophication. About 75% of the lake surface is breed at high altitudes, but its non-breeding distribution is covered by Salvinia molesta and other alien invasive usually associated with coastal and lowland wetlands (van species, such as Alternathera sessilis and Zantedeschia Gils et al. 2017). In Greater Sundas – a non-breeding area aethiopica (Hakim & Miyakawa 2015, T. Artaka Pers. – the species has been recorded up to 1400 m in Kersik Tuo Obs.). Many introduced species of fish can be found, such and Rawa Bento, Kerinci Seblat National Park in Sumatera as Mozambique Tilapia Oreochromis mossambicus, Guppy (Holmes 1996, Wibowo et al. 2013) and up to 1300 m in Poecilia sp and Catfish. In recent years no other waterbird Sarawak, Borneo (Mann 2008). In Java, it is a widespread species have been present during surveys, however there and common migrant, recorded from sea level to up to 1500 are historical records of Pacific Black Duck Anas m (Hoogerwerf 1948, MacKinnon & Phillipps 1993). Here superciliosa and of Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis we report our observations from several high-altitude breeding at the lake (van Balen 1992). wetlands on Java above 1500 m. In the nearby Dieng Plateau, Central Java, Common During a visit to Ranu Pani lake, located at 2100 m, in Sandpiper were recorded in two high elevation locations. Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, East Java (8° 0' The first at the Sikidang Crater (2060 m; 7° 13' 10.49" S, 48.19" S, 112° 56' 50.76" E) in November 2011, TA 109° 54' 22.86" E) in Dieng Kulon village, Batur sub- observed two Common Sandpipers present at the lake edge. district, Banjarnegara district, where a single bird was Two birds were again observed at the same location in observed by SB on 16 February 2012. The second at Telaga December 2011, and again in November to December Warna lake (2086 m; 7° 12' 56.78" S, 109° 54' 52.15" E), 2012. In November and December 2013, TA recorded up about 1 km from the Sidikang Crater. Here, on 18 January to four birds in this location (Figure 1). 2017 (Figure 2) and again on 23 January 2017, AH and RF Ranu Pani is a 4 ha lake formed by ancient volcanic observed a single bird. Previous visits by AH in June and activity. The daily temperature averages around 10-28 °C August 2016 had not recorded the species. The occurrence and at night falls to between 5-6 °C (colder in the dry of Common Sandpiper at the Sikidang Crater is notable, as season). Water quality in the lake is poor, due to domestic the area is an active volcanic crater with hot mud ponds and

Figure 1. Common Sandpiper perched on a dead branch at Ranu Figure 2. A single Common Sandpiper on a dry area within the Pani (2100 m), Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, East Java Telaga Warna lake (2086 m), Dieng Mountains, Central Java, on on 10 December 2013. Photo: Toni Artaka. 18 January 2017. Photo: Ari Hidayat. Stilt 71 (2017): 45-46 Common Sandpiper at High elevation wetlands - Java

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Thanks to Muhammad Iqbal for comments and information on the species records in Greater Sundas and to Bas van Balen for providing Hoogerwerf’s paper. Thanks to Andika Faizalhaqi, Rahmadiyono Widodo, and Ratih Perwita Sari who accompanied us on 23 January 2017. We thank Dr. Birgitta Hansen for facilitated us in communication with the editor, and two anonymous reviewers and Dr. Greg Kerr for constructive comments on our manuscript.