Gerygone: taxon details and analytics

Domain
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Passeriformes
Family
Acanthizidae
Genus
Gerygone
Species
Scientific Name
Gerygone

Summary description from Wikipedia:

Gerygone

Gerygone (), the gerygones or peep-warblers, is a genus of bird in the family Acanthizidae. The genus ranges from Southeast Asia through New Guinea and Australia to New Zealand and the Chatham Islands. Most of the species are found in Australia and New Guinea; only one, the golden-bellied gerygone, has managed to cross Wallace's Line and colonise as far as Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Gerygones are insectivores which obtain most of their food by gleaning and snatching in the foliage of trees and bushes. They are small, mostly weighing an average of 6–7 g, and show little variation in size across their range, except for the insular Chatham Islands gerygone, which is nearly twice as large as the rest of the genus.

Their songs are described as "simple but delightful", many descending in pitch, and some species are excellent mimics. "Gerygone" means "born of sound" (Magrath 2003).

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Gerygone in languages:

Bokmål
Gerygoner
English
Gerygones
English
Peep-warblers
English
Australasian Warblers
Finnish
keijumalurit
French
Gérygones
German
Gerygonen
Italian
Gerigone
Japanese
センニョムシクイ属
Russian
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