
The golden-bellied gerygone (''Gerygone sulphurea'') is a species of
bird
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in the family
Acanthizidae
Acanthizidae—sometimes called Australian warblers—are a family of passerine birds which includes gerygones, thornbills '' Acanthiza'', and scrubwrens '' Sericornis''. The family Acanthizidae consists of small to medium passerine birds, with ...
. It is found in
Brunei
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,
Indonesia
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,
Malaysia
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, the
Philippines
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,
Singapore
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,
Cambodia
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,
Vietnam
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and
Thailand
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. Its natural
habitat
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s are
subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest
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Description
TSMF is generally found in large ...
and subtropical or tropical
mangrove forest
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.
Taxonomy
''Gerygone sulphurea'' includes the following subspecies:
[Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.]
* ''G. s. sulphurea'' - Wallace, 1864
* ''G. s. muscicapa'' - Oberholser, 1912
* ''G. s. simplex'' - Cabanis, 1872
* ''G. s. rhizophorae'' - Mearns, 1905
* ''G. s. flaveola'' - Cabanis, 1873
References
golden-bellied gerygone
The golden-bellied gerygone (''Gerygone sulphurea'') is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical ...
Birds of Malesia
golden-bellied gerygone
The golden-bellied gerygone (''Gerygone sulphurea'') is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. Its natural habitats are subtropical ...
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