Thornbills (Acanthizidae)
Green-backed Gerygone (Gerygone chloronota) - HBW 12, p. 600
French: Gérygone à dos vert
German: Grünrückengerygone
Spanish: Gerigón Dorsiverde
Other common names: Grey-headed Gerygone, Green-backed Fairy-warbler/Flyeater/Warbler
Taxonomy: Gerygone chloronotus Gould, 1843, Port Essington, Northern Territory, Australia.
Race darwini possibly intergrades with nominate. Species name is a latinized Greek adjective and therefore must agree with feminine gender of genus, chloronota. Four subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- cinereiceps ( Sharpe, 1886) - hills and lowlands of mainland New Guinea, and W Papuan Is.
- aruensis Büttikofer, 1893 - Aru Is.
- chloronota Gould, 1843 - N Northern Territory (Arnhem Land S to lower Victoria and Roper river drainages), including Tiwi Is and Groote Eylandt, in N Australia.
- darwini Mathews, 1912 - N Western Australia (from King Sound E to Cambridge Gulf) and adjacent W Northern Territory (E to Victoria R).
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Bird in mangroves
Locality Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia (ssp chloronota)
Mat Gilfedder 30 July 2009 3 years ago 3.4 -
Foraging
Locality Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia (ssp Chloronatus)
Lindsay Hansch 4 July 2008 2 years ago 3.2 -
Green-backed Gerygone perched
Locality Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia (ssp Chloronotus)
Rhonda Hansch 4 July 2008 1 year ago 2.7
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