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...from a walk on the Nudgee Beach mangrove boardwalk.

Mangrove Gerygone
Scientific Name: Gerygone levigaster
Description: Similar in size and shape to Dusky Gerygone, but slightly shorter bill. Top and sides of head and neck grey/brown, changing to grey/white on on chin and throat. Narrow white eye-ring. Iris red/red brown, legs and feet black, black bill. Often with redish brown tinge on rump. Off white on upperbody, with pale grey on throat, chin and sides.
Similar species: Dusky Gerygone, Large-billed Gerygone
Distribution: Purely coastal along Northern and Eastern coast, living in the mangroves. From Central Coast of NSW to the Kimberley WA. Sometime found in adjacent paperbark forests.
Habitat: Mangroves as well as associated paperbark forests and thickets nearby mangroves.
Seasonal movements: No known seasonal movements, sedentary or resident.
Feeding: Usually forage in mangroves in trees, sometimes on ground. Can forage either singly, in pairs, small flocks sometimes with White-eyes. Exclusively insects. Occasionally hovers over flowers to catch insects.
Breeding: Eastern Australia mostly spring-summer, in North mostly Autumn-spring (dry season). Usually nests in mangroves, nest is oval, domes with spout like entrance. Constructio materials include grass, paperbark, roots, mos, dry seaweed, and decorated with cocoons, spider egg-sacs. Usually 2-3 eggs. Incubated by female, 12-14 days.. Both parents feed nestlings.
Minimum Size: 10cm
Maximum Size: 12cm
Average size: 11cm
Average weight: 6g
Breeding season: Spring-Summer
Clutch Size: 2-3
Incubation: 12 days-14 days
Nestling Period: 14 days-17 days
(Source: www.birdsinbackyards.net)

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