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).
...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
- Геригоны
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Gerygone albofrontata
- Gerygone chloronota
- Gerygone chrysogaster
- Gerygone citrina
- Gerygone dorsalis
- Gerygone flavolateralis
- Gerygone fusca
- Gerygone hypoxantha
- Gerygone igata
- Gerygone inornata
- Gerygone insularis
- Gerygone levigaster
- Gerygone magnirostris
- Gerygone modesta
- Gerygone mouki
- Gerygone olivacea
- Gerygone palpebrosa
- Gerygone ruficollis
- Gerygone sulphurea
- Gerygone tenebrosa



































































