GOLDEN-BELLIED GERYGONE

Photographed in north-west Bali October 2016

(859)              GOLDEN-BELLIED GERYGONE                   Gerygone sulphurea 

INDONESIA (Bali)         (80)        

Also known as Golden-bellied Flyeater. 9 cms. Found in a variety of wooded habitats, from mangroves, open coastal woodlands, roadsides and parks to closed forest. Range: Southeast Asia; widespread and generally common resident in Sumatra, Kalimantan, Java, Bali, Flores, Alor and Sulawesi.

GREEN-BACKED GERYGONE

Photographed at Buffalo Creek, Darwin May 2016

772             GREEN-BACKED GERYGONE          Gerygone chlorontus

Australia           (616)

Found in tall dense vegetation, especially near water and on scrubby escarpments: monsoon and heavy mixed forests; bamboo-thickets, paper-bark swamps, mangroves, eucalyptus forest;large fig trees, gardens. 9-10 cm. Range: coastal, sub-coastal nw Aust., from Top End (NT), incl. Groote Eylandt-Melville I. and other Is. to w. Kimberley-Broome (WA) Common, sedentary.

NORFOLK ISLAND GERYGONE

Photographed on Norfolk Island January 2016

755                NORFOLK ISLAND GERYGONE            Gerygone modesta

Australia          (599)

Also known as Grey Warbler, or locally as ‘peurty’. Endemic to Norfolk Island. 10-11 cm. Found in most environments with tree or shrub cover, feeds in canopy of trees and shrubs, hover gleans from outer foliage. Common but regarded as Near Threatened because its whole population is on one island.

LARGE-BILLED GERYGONE

Photographed on the Daintree River, near Daintree Village October 2015

717             LARGE-BILLED GERYGONE         Gerygone magnirostris

Australia       (559)

Also known as Floodbird and Large-billed Warbler. 10.5-11.5 cm. Found in rainforests, paperbarks on streams; eucalyptus woodlands, mangroves, gardens. Range: coastal n. Aust., and islands, from McKay (Q) to w.Kimberley (WA). Common, sedentary.

Large-billed Gerygone nest

FAIRY GERYGONE

Photographed at Cooktown Botanic Gardens, Queensland October 2015

680      FAIRY GERYGONE           Gerygone palpebrosa

Australia            (522)

Race: personata, also known as Black-throated warbler. Found on the edges of lowland rainforest, vine forest, leafy trees on watercourses; eucalypt woodlands; scrubland; mangroves. Range: n and e Q and islands. Race: personata: Cape York Pen., s. to Atherton Tableland-Innesfail on e coast and Staten R on w coast. Race: flavida; coastal s. from c. Innesfail to Fraser Is., Tin Can Bay, Kin Kin, and Widgee in se Q. Fairly common,Sedentary. The distinctive races do overlap and interbreed.

Female

Nest, the bottom has caught on a branch as it swayed in the wind.

MANGROVE GERYGONE

Photographed next to Derby jetty, Western Australia, May 2015

600        MANGROVE GERYGONE              Gerygone levigaster

Australia            (443)

11 cm. Found in mangroves, coastal woodlands, gardens. Range: coastal n. and e. Aust. from Derby (WA) to C. York (Q), and from Cardell (Q) s. to c. Botany Bay (NSW)

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. 

WESTERN GERYGONE

Photographed in Dryandra Woodlands, Western Australia April 2015

559          WESTERN GERYGONE        Gerygone fusca

Australia        (400)

10-11 cm. Found in drier open forests, woodlands; coastal, inland eucalypt, mulga, other acacia scrubs. Ranges in e., c. and w. Aust: e. to near coast between c. Rockhampton (Q) and Sydney (NSW); s. coast Vic; Eyre Pen. (SA); w. coast from Esperence-NW Cape (WA)

BROWN GERYGONG

286           BROWN GERYGONG               Gerrygone mouki

Australia          (256)

Also known as the Brown Wabler. 9-11 cm. Range along eastern coast from Sale (Vic) to Cooktown (Q). Found in wet coastal/mountain rainforest, vegetated gullies and mangroves.