white-throated gerygone
{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = White-throated gerygone
| image = Gerygone olivacea - Mount Annan Botanic Gardens.jpg
|image_caption={{Birdsong|url = https://xeno-canto.org/species/Gerygone-olivacea|species = White-throated gerygone}}
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Gerygone
| species = olivacea
| authority = (Gould, 1838)
| subdivision_ranks = Subspecies
| subdivision_ref = Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.
| subdivision =
- G. o. cinerascens - Sharpe, 1878
- G. o. rogersi - Mathews, 1911
- G. o. olivacea - (Gould, 1838)
| synonyms =
}}
The white-throated gerygone (Gerygone olivacea) is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae.
It is found in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Its natural habitats are temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Its common names include white-throated warbler, white-throated flyeater, bush canary, and native canary.Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds. Reader's Digest, Sydney, 1979. {{ISBN|0-909486-50-6}}
==Taxonomy and Systematics==
Gerygone comes from the Greek word “gerugonos” meaning “echos”. The species name olivacea is latin for ‘olive-green’, given for its underbelly coloration. {{cite web |last1=Jobling |first1=James |title=Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names |url=https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n281/mode/1up?view=theater |website=archive.org` |access-date=18 April 2025}}
There are three recognized subspecies of G. olivacea: Gerygone olivacea ssp. cinerascens, Gerygone olivacea ssp. rogersi, and Gerygone olivacea ssp. olivacea.
==Distribution and Habitat==
The species is disturbed through southeastern New Guinea and northern and eastern Australia. G. olivacea ssp. cinerascens is found in southeastern New Guinea and the Cape York Peninsula of Australia. G. olivacea ssp. rogersi is found in northwestern Australia. G. olivacea ssp. olivocea is found primary in New South Wales.
Gallery
File:White-throated Gerygone Nesting 1.jpg|{{center|Fig 1. The bird(s) wound sticky threads around a Bougainvillea stem.
These threads appeared to be spider web.}}
File:White-throated Gerygone Nesting 2.jpg|{{center|Fig 2. The nest was located in among the Bougainvillea foliage.
Both sexes seemed to help build it.}}
File:White-throated Gerygone Nesting 3.jpg|{{center|Fig 3. Other material was then stuck to the sticky foundation. The birds did not work on the nest every day.}}
File:White-throated Gerygone Nesting 4.jpg|{{center|Fig 4. The weight of the nesting material and the gerygones
gradually bent the branch vertical.}}
File:White-throated Gerygone Nesting 5.jpg|{{center|Fig 5. The nest took several weeks to build.
It was made from strips of bark, twigs,
animal fur, and manufactured fibres.}}
File:White-throated Gerygone Nesting 6.jpg|{{center|Fig 6. This view shows the circular entry to the nest.}}
File:White-throated Gerygone Nesting 7.jpg|{{center|Fig 7. This view shows the rear of the nest.}}
File:White-throated Gerygone Nesting 8.jpg|{{center|Fig 8. The gerygones abandoned the nest soon after completion.
It may have been a decoy nest.}}
References
{{Commons category|Gerygone olivacea}}
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Category:Birds of Papua New Guinea
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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