DUSTY GERYGONE

Photographed at Carnarvon, Western Australia April 2015; Note: same photograph just cropped.

585          DUSKY GERYGONE           Gerygone tenebrosa

Australia          (428)

The largest of the Gerygones, 11-13 cm. Found in mangroves, nearby swampland, creased mangrove. Range: coastal nw. WA, from nw Kimberley to Shark Bay, except where mangroves absent. 

PIED HONEYEATER

Photographed at Carnarvon, Western Australia April 2015

584         PIED HONEYEATER            Certhionyx variegatus

Australia          (427)

15-18 cm. Found in arid scrubland, mulga, mallee-spinifex, flowering shrubs/trees, eucalyptus woodlands. Range: arid interior, e. to c. Q-NSW c. Port Headland-Geraldton (WA); s. to Nullarbor Plain-Murray mallee (SA). Highly nomadic.