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Western Gerygone, Perth WA.

July 24, 2025 - Fan-tailed Gerygone (Gerygone flavolateralis) These gerygones live in forests, scrub, and gardens in Vanuatu and New Caledonia. Foraging alone, in pairs, or in small family groups and joining mixed-species flocks, they feed on insects and their larvae and pupae, picking their prey from leaves, twigs, and branches and capturing it in flight. Breeding from September through February, depending on the area of their range, they build domed nests with hooded side entrances from plant fibers, rootlets, bark, moss, spiderwebs, feathers, and soft plants. Females lay clutches of two or three eggs.

Gerygone igata by Steve Attwood

Dusky Gerygone, Exmouth WA

January 4, 2024 - Mangrove Gerygone (Gerygone levigaster) These gerygones are found in and around mangroves along the coasts of northern and eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. They eat insects, picking their prey from surfaces while hovering and capturing it in short flights, foraging alone, in pairs, and in small flocks, often with other species. Females are thought to build domed oval-shaped nests from grass, roots, bark, dry seaweed, moss, spiderwebs, feathers, spider egg sacs, and other materials hanging from branches. They lay clutches of two or three eggs. Both parents feed the chicks.

November 21, 2022 - Fairy Gerygone (Gerygone palpebrosa) These gerygones are found in New Guinea and northeastern Australia in lowland and mangrove forests. They eat insects, foraging alone, in pairs or small groups, or with mixed-species flocks in trees, vines, and shrubs, picking their prey from foliage and bark or capturing it in short flights. Females or pairs build elongated domed nests with entrances near the top from plant fibers, bark, spider egg sacs and webs, cocoons, lichen, moss, and other materials in trees, shrubs, or vines. They often locate them near wasp nests, possibly as a defense against predators. Females probably incubate the clutches of one to three eggs alone but both parents feed the chicks.