- Gerygone chrysogaster
Identification
10 cm
- Brownish-olive upperparts
- Brownish wings and tail
- Greyish cheek
- Pale supraloral stripe
Distribution
South-east Asia and Australasia
South-east Asia: found in Indonesia and the Moluccas
Australasia: Papua New Guinea, Queensland and Melanesia
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 5 subspecies[1]:
- G. c. leucothorax
- Lowlands of western New Guinea (Geelvink Bay region)
- G. c. notata:
- Western New Guinea, Misool and Batanta islands
- G. c. neglecta:
- Waigeo Island (New Guinea)
- G. c. dohertyi:
- South-western New Guinea (Onin Peninsula to Triton Bay)
- G. c. chrysogaster:
- Southern and eastern New Guinea, Yapen Island and Aru Islands
Habitat
Rainforests and mangroves.
Behaviour
Diet
They are insectivorous but little else is know about what they eat.
References
- 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/
- Avibase
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved November 2014)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Yellow-bellied Gerygone. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 11 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Yellow-bellied_Gerygone
External Links
GSearch checked for 2020 platform.
