Thornbills (Acanthizidae)
Western Gerygone (Gerygone fusca) - HBW 12, p. 598
French: Gérygone à queue blanche
German: Weißschwanzgerygone
Spanish: Gerigón Coliblanco
Other common names: Western/Fuscous/Inland/White-tailed Warbler
Taxonomy: Psilopus fuscus Gould, 1838, Swan River, Western Australia.
Probably forms a species group with G. levigaster and G. flavolateralis, and in past sometimes treated as conspecific with former. Races mungi and exsul intergrade in S Gulf of Carpentaria region; possible clinal variation within exsul, underparts becoming whiter and white markings narrower from S to N, but complicated by poorly understood movements into range of race mungi; exsul formerly included within nominate. Three subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- fusca (Gould, 1838) - SW Western Australia S from about Leeman (and extending N in non-breeding season to Pilbara and S Kimberley Division); also South Australia (S Eyre Peninsula).
- mungi Mathews, 1912 - inland WC Australia, within area roughly bounded by Pilbara and C Northern Territory (Barkly Tableland) in N, by Simpson Desert and W Queensland border in E and by NW South Australia and Wiluna region of Western Australia in S.
- exsul Mathews, 1912 - inland C & E Australia from Queensland (base of Cape York peninsula and W slopes of Great Dividing Range) S to W basin of Murray-Darling and C Victoria.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Two birds tending a nest Locality Campbell Park, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (ssp exsul)
Nick Talbot 9 December 2005 3 years ago 12 sec 4.4 -
A male perched singing. Locality Beechworth, Victoria, Australia
Josep del Hoyo 26 October 2009 2 years ago 59 sec 4.2 -
A bird feeding on leaves of a sapling, then jumping to another twig and calling Locality Campbell Park, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (ssp exsul)
Nick Talbot 9 December 2005 3 years ago 16 sec 4 -
A bird perched in a sapling Locality Campbell Park, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (ssp exsul)
Nick Talbot 9 December 2005 3 years ago 9 sec 3.7 -
Two birds tending a nest, one flying off and returning Locality Campbell Park, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (ssp exsul)
Nick Talbot 9 December 2005 3 years ago 37 sec 3.5 -
A bird in a tree, moving from branch to branch and calling Locality Berri, South Australia, Australia (ssp exsul)
Peter Waanders 21 November 2005 5 years ago 23 sec 3.5
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Foraging
Locality Cocoparra National Park, New South Wales, Australia (ssp exsul)
Lindsay Hansch 5 October 2009 2 years ago 3.3 -
Foraging after the rain.
Locality Lesmurdie, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Nicholas Tomney 7 June 2012 48 weeks ago 3.2 -
in tree
Locality Lake Cargelligo, New South Wales, Australia (ssp exsul)
Michael Retter 1 October 2009 3 years ago 3 -
Western Gerygone displaying tail feathers.
Locality Tambellup, Western Australia, Australia
Nicholas Tomney 26 June 2012 45 weeks ago 2.9 -
Foraging in treetop foliage
Locality Lesmurdie, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Nicholas Tomney 19 April 2012 1 year ago 2.9
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A male singing. Superb Fairy-wren can be heard in the background. Locality Berri, South Australia, Australia
(ssp exsul)
Peter Waanders 21 November 2005 3 years ago 4
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