Biak gerygone

Biak gerygone
Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Acanthizidae
Genus: Gerygone
Species: G. magnirostris
Subspecies: G. m. hypoxantha
Trinomial name
Gerygone magnirostris hypoxantha
Salvadori, 1878
Synonyms

Gerygone hypoxantha

The Biak gerygone (Gerygone magnirostris hypoxantha) is a subspecies of the large-billed gerygone, but it is sometimes considered a distinct species. It is endemic to West Papua, Indonesia.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss; when it was still considered a good species, it was listed as Endangered by the IUCN.[1]

Footnotes

  1. E.g. Baillie et al. (2004).

References


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