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 The White-throated Gerygone has a cascading melodious song and
bright olive, yellow and white plumage that makes it easy to recognise.
It feeds on insects in the outer canopy of trees. They are summer migrants,
staying for quite a long period in the region, and are twice as abundant
as Western Gerygones.
There are few records in winter, but numbers increase quickly
from September to October, then decrease through November and December
as the birds move into the woodland areas to breed. Numbers build to
a second, though smaller peak in March and decline quickly as the birds
migrate north. As for the Western Gerygone, the drought of 1982-3 brought
particularly high numbers in summer. There was a general downward trend
from 1986-87, except for the summer of 1994-95 when numbers were high.
There are breeding records only for the early years with nest
activities being recorded in December and dependent young from late January
to mid-March. White-throated Gerygones commonly breed in woodland reserves
around Canberra.. R=57. BR=51.
 
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