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- Pitta caerulea
Identification
29 cm. Sexually dimorphic. Adult Male. Forehead, crown and nape black. Upperparts, wings and tail deep blue. Long grey supercillia, grey lores, broad(ish) black eye stripe from behind the eye, ear coverts, "cheeks" and throat grey with thin black margins. Broken black collar from the sides of the nape and across the breast. Rest of the underparts washed dirty buff. Bill dark grey, eye grey and legs pale flesh pink. Both taxa very similar Adult Female. Forehead, crown and nape rufous buff, thinly barred black. Back rufous. Rump and tail deep blue. Scapulars dull brown, wings dark brown. Rufous buff supercillia, dusky lores, black eye stripe behind the eye, ear coverts buff, faint pale sub-moustachial stripe and dusky malar stripe. Thin, broken black collar across the base of the nape and across the breast. Underparts rufous buff. Bill grey, eye brown and legs flesh pink. Bornean birds as nominate except for more rufous crown with darker margins making it look scalloped.
Distribution
Asia: found in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaya, Sumatra
Taxonomy
Subspecies[1]
- P. c. caerulea:
- Southern Myanmar, southern Thailand, Malay Peninsula and Sumatra
- P. c. hosei:
Habitat
Behaviour
References
- Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Giant Pitta. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 18 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Giant_Pitta
