Biak gerygone

{{Short description|Species of bird}}

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| name = Biak gerygone

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| status = VU

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| genus = Gerygone

| species = hypoxantha

| authority = Salvadori, 1878

| synonyms =Gerygone magnirostris hypoxantha

| range_map = Biak gerygone range.png

|status_ref={{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=Gerygone hypoxantha |volume=2016 |page=e.T22704697A104067231 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22704697A104067231.en |access-date=11 November 2021}}

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The Biak gerygone (Gerygone hypoxantha) is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae. It is endemic to the islands of Biak and Supiori in West Papua, Indonesia.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland.

It is threatened by habitat loss and is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN.

It was previously treated as a subspecies of the large-billed gerygone (Gerygone magnirostris).{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | year=2019 | title=Bristlebirds, pardalotes, Australasian warblers | work=World Bird List Version 9.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/bristlebirds/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=21 January 2019 }}

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