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title: "Bruine mangrovezanger"
description: "Gerygone mouki — Vogels. The brown gerygone (Gerygone mouki), previously known as the brown warbler, is a small passerine bird native to eastern coastal Australia."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/brown-gerygone
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bruine mangrovezanger

> Gerygone mouki — Vogels. The brown gerygone (Gerygone mouki), previously known as the brown warbler, is a small passerine bird native to eastern coastal Australia.

- Scientific name: *Gerygone mouki*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 2166
- Wikidata: [Q533527](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q533527)
- iNaturalist taxon: [13500](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/13500)

## Names

- en: Brown Gerygone
- de: Grauwangengerygone
- es: Gerigón Pardo
- fr: Gérygone brune
- nl: Bruine mangrovezanger
- pt: Gerígono-castanho
- pl: Krzakówka szarolica

## Countries with the most observations

AU (1940)

## Summary

The brown gerygone (Gerygone mouki), previously known as the brown warbler, is a small passerine bird native to eastern coastal Australia.
The upper parts are olive-brown (or olive-grey for the nominate subspecies native to far-north Queensland), while its face and underparts are a much paler grey, cream, or washed-out brown. The tail feathers are dark and may be white-tipped. It is approximately 10 cm in length.
The brown gerygone has a relatively large range. Although total population trends have not been quantified, it is considered of "least concern" by the IUCN.
It may be sighted in coastal rainforest, singly…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_gerygone

## Photo

![Bruine mangrovezanger](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-gerygone/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jess Miller-Camp · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/37053095

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/brown-gerygone?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).