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By location, this should be subspecies flavida
Photo by Tom Tarrant
Bribie Island, South East Queensland, Australia, April 2005

Includes Black-headed Gerygone

Gerygone palpebrosa

Distribution

Queensland in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and Indonesia (provinces Papua and West Papua).

Taxonomy

Subspecies

Six subspecies are recognized^[1]:

• G. p. palpebrosa:

• North-western New Guinea, Aru, Waigeo, Misool and Salawati islands

• G. p. wahnesi:

• Yapen Island and northern New Guinea

• G. p. inconspicua:

• South-eastern New Guinea (west to upper Fly River)

• G. p. tarara:

• Southern New Guinea (Moorhead River to mouth of Fly River)

• G. p. personata:

• Northern Queensland (Cape York Peninsula)

• G. p. flavida:

• Eastern Queensland (Burdekin River to about Maryborough)

The last subspecies (G. p. flavida) has in the past been considered a full species, and did then carry the common name of Fairy Gerygone; the remainder of the subspecies were known as Black-headed Gerygone.

Habitat

Coastal Woodland.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, B.L. Sullivan, C. L. Wood, and D. Roberson. 2012. The eBird/Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to October 2012. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/downloadable-clements-checklist
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Fairy Gerygone. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 15 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Fairy_Gerygone

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