What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Fan-tailed Gerygone been recorded?

Gerygone flavolateralis occurrence evidence comes from 20 records in 3 countries and territories, from 1943 to 2018. Most records come from Solomon Islands.

Fan-tailed Gerygone
Fan-tailed Gerygone — Photo (display-sized rendition): JJ Harrison · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesAcanthizidaeGerygone

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

20 records across 3 countries and territories, 1943–2018.

Gerygone flavolateralis · GBIF taxon key 2486556

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: October.

5 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

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Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Fan-tailed Gerygone has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Fan-tailed Gerygone. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Solomon Islands 14
New Caledonia 3
Vanuatu 3

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records concentrated in part of the year. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.