White-throated Gerygone (Gerygone olivacea) [XC603295]
by Iain Woxvold from Goldie Bushland Reserve, Macedon Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia (song)
White-throated Gerygone (Gerygone olivacea) [XC522208]
by David Edwards from Normanton, Carpentaria Shire, Queensland, Australia (song)
Breeding Season (Guide)
August or September - January.
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Nest
Pair-shaped, with a hooded entrance near the top, and a tail piece, composed of fine bark strips bound with cobweb, lined with plant-down and feathers, usualy attached to a thin, leafy branch of a eucalypt sapling from 1 - 20 meters above the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
2 - 3; white or pink-white, heavily spotted, blotched, freckled red, red-purple, forming a zone at the larger end; oval; about 18 x 13 mm. Incubation: about 15 - 16 days; usually by female.
Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in about 15 - 19 days.
Subspecies
The following 3 subspecies are recognised:
olivacea (Gould, 1838) - Eastern Australia, from the base of Cape York Peninsula, Qld, south and west to the western slopes of the Great Divide and south-eastern and south-central Vic.
cinerascens Sharpe, 1878 - Northern and central Cape York Peninsual, south to Princess Charlotte Bay and Lower Mitchell River, Qld and south-eastern New Guinea.
rogersi Mathews, 1911 - Northern Australia, north of the eucalypt line, from south-western Kimberley Divide, WA east to the south-eastern head of Gulf of Carpenatria, Qld.
Similar Species
Within its range Fairy Gerygone (Gerygone palpebrosa), Weebill (Smicrornis brevirostris) which has a shorter, pale bill and a creamy-white eye and Yellow Thornbill (Acanthiza nana).
Compare Images
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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