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Western Gerygone
Gerygone fusca · Family Acanthizidae
Gerygone fusca
Family Acanthizidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Acanthizidae
- GBIF occurrence records
- 129,760
- Countries and territories with records
- 5
About this species
This species has 129,760 occurrence records from 5 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.12% of all bird records in GBIF.
The scientific name Gerygone fusca combines the genus name Gerygone with the species epithet fusca. The Warbla app catalog lists 19 species of the genus Gerygone; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Gerygone igata, Gerygone olivacea and Gerygone mouki.
The catalog has GBIF record counts for 66 species of the family Acanthizidae. This species ranks 11th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Acanthiza pusilla. Its record count is 1.7 times the family average (75,104). The family Acanthizidae belongs to the order Passeriformes, which has 6,193 species in the Warbla app catalog.