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 LC    Green-backed Gerygone* Id (Atlas):
    Gerygone chloronota

Description (10)
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Other Scientific Names
Gerygone chloronotus [Sibley and Monroe (1990, 1993)]

Other Names (World)
Green-backed Gerygone, Grey-headed Gerygone, Gray-headed Gerygone, Green-backed Fairy-warbler, Green-backed Flyeater, Green-backed Warbler, Hornet-nest Bird

Family
Acanthizidae (Thornbills)

Size
9.50 - 11 cm

First Described (Guide)
Gould, 1843

Derivation
Gë-ryg'-on-e - Gk, gerygone, born of sound: chlör-o-nöt'-us - Gk, chloros, yellow-green; Gk, noton, back

Habitat
Mainly rainforests, especially monsoon vine forests, also mangroves, and sometimes in dense riparian vegetation bordering watercourses or other wetlands.

Range (Guide)
Australia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2020) and stable.

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Habits
Usually in twos and sometimes family parties. Occasionally singly.

Food
Insects.

Voice
A repeated musical reel.



Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (24)...)

 
Green-backed Gerygone (Gerygone chloronota) [XC672289]
     by James Lambert from Nightcliff, Darwin Municipality, Northern Territory, Australia (call)

 
Green-backed Gerygone (Gerygone chloronota) [XC647855]
     by James Lambert from Charles Darwin University, Darwin Municipality, Northern Territory, Australia (begging call, call)

Nest
Dome-shaped, with a side-entrance, composed of grass and fine rootlets, suspended from a twig of a mangove.

Eggs (Guide)
2, usually 3; matt, white, speckled all over with red-brown, often in a zone at the larger end; oval; about 18 x 13 mm. Incubation: about 12 days; mainly by female.

Young
Altricial, nidicolous. Fledge in about 10 days. Probably fed by both parents.

Subspecies
Subspecies darwini, possibly intergrading with chloronotus, east to Victoria River.

The following 4 subspecies are recognised:

  • chloronota Gould, 1843   -  Arnhem Land south to Lower Victoria and Roper River Drainages, and Tiwi Island and Groote Eylandt, NT.
  • darwini Mathews, 1912   -  North-western Kimberley Divide, WA from King Sound to Cambridge Gulf.
  • cinereiceps (Sharpe, 1886)   -  Hills and lowlands of mainland New Guinea, and western Papuan Is.
  • aruensis Büttikofer, 1893   -  Aru Island.



References
See References.

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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