Beautiful Birds

 Brown Gerygone

Scientific Classification

Scientific Name - Gerygone mouki

Domain               - Eukaryota

Kingdom             - Animalia

Phylum                - Chordata

Class                     - Aves

Order                   - Passeriformes

Family                 - Acanthizidae

Genus                  - Gerygone

Species                - G.mouki

  Brown Gerygone, previously known as the brown warbler, is a small passerine bird native to eastern coastal Australia. The upper parts of the Brown Gerygone, are a deep olive-grey or olive-brown, while it's face and under parts are a much paler grey, cream or washed-out brown. The tail feathers are dark and may be white-tipped. It is approximately 10cm in length. The unobtrusive yet incessant twittering of the  Brown Gerygone is among the characteristic sounds of the rainforests of eastern Australia. The bird is abundant in these forests, where it lives year-sound. Singly, in pairs, or in loose three or four out of breeding, it feeds quietly but energetically through the inner and outer foliage of the trees, at two-20 meters above the ground. The birds frequently join foraging groups of other species to wander. Like all Australian gerygones, the brown gleans it's insect food from leaves and branches but occasionally darts out like a flycatcher to capture insects on the wing, or takes them in fight while hovering with rapid wing beats about the outer foliage. While feeding it has a tendency  to shake it's wings and flicks it's tail.

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