Large-billed gerygone

Large-billed gerygone
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1) [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Acanthizidae
Genus:	Gerygone
Species:	G. magnirostris
Binomial name
Gerygone magnirostris Gould, 1843

The large-billed gerygone (Gerygone magnirostris) is a species of bird in the family Acanthizidae found in northern Australia and New Guinea.

Taxonomy

Gerygone magnirostris includes the following subspecies: ^[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

1. BirdLife International (2018). "Gerygone magnirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 e.T22704692A130385494. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22704692A130385494.en . Retrieved 12 November 2021.
2. Gill F, D Donsker & P Rasmussen (Eds). 2020. IOC World Bird List (v10.2). doi : 10.14344/IOC.ML.10.2.

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