Green-backed Gerygone - BirdForum Opus

Photo by tcollins
Darwin Northern Territory, Australia, July, 2007

Gerygone chloronota

Identification

9·5–11 cm (7·5–8·3 cm New Guinea races)

• Greyish head
• No tail spots

Distribution

Asia and Australasia
Southeast Asia: found in Indonesia, Moluccas, Papua New Guinea
Australia: Northern Territory, Western Australia, Melanesia

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 4 subspecies^[1]:

• G. c. cinereiceps:

• New Guinea

• G. c. aruensis:

• Aru, Waigeo, Salawati and Batanta islands

• G. c. chloronota:

• Northern Territory (Arnhem Land, Melville I., Groote Eylandt)

• G. c. darwini:

• North-western Western Australia (Kimberley Division)

Habitat

Riparian forests, mangroves and thickets.

Behaviour

Diet

Their diet includes a variety of insects, spiders, beetles, wasps etc.

Ref

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2014)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Green-backed Gerygone. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 28 April 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Green-backed_Gerygone

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