The large-billed gerygone (''Gerygone magnirostris'') is a species of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

in the family

Acanthizidae The Acanthizidae—known as Australian warblers—are a family of passerine birds which includes gerygones, the thornbills '' Acanthiza'', and the scrubwrens of '' Sericornis''. The Acanthizidae family consists of small to medium passerine birds, ...

found in northern

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and

New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surrounding areas of Port Moresby (Capital of Papua New Guinea). It is a simplified version of ...

Taxonomy

''Gerygone magnirostris'' 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. m. conspicillata'' - (Gray, GR, 1859) * ''G. m. affinis'' - Meyer, AB, 1874 * ''G. m. rosseliana'' - Hartert, 1899 * ''G. m. brunneipectus'' - (Sharpe, 1879) * ''G. m. magnirostris'' - Gould, 1843 * ''G. m. cairnsensis'' - Mathews, 1912

References

Venables B., Pritchard J. and Murphy S. (2007) Novel observations of pre-breeding display structures used by Large-billed Gerygones. ''Sunbird'' 37: 30.

large-billed gerygone The large-billed gerygone (''Gerygone magnirostris'') is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae found in northern Australia and New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's secon ...

Birds of New Guinea Birds of the Northern Territory Birds of Queensland

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