🦋 Family

Pittidae

12 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › Aves › Passeriformes › Pittidae

Pitta versicolor Swainson, 1825

Pitta versicolor, the noisy pitta, is a colourful bird found in eastern Australian forests and sometimes southern New Guinea.

Pitta brachyura (Linnaeus, 1766)

Pitta brachyura, the Indian pitta, is a small stubby-tailed Asian bird that forages on forest floors.

Pitta sordida (Statius Muller, 1776)

The western hooded pitta is a common least-concern passerine bird native to parts of Asia.

Pitta moluccensis (Statius Muller, 1776)

Pitta moluccensis, the blue-winged pitta, is a small Asian forest bird with distinct bright plumage.

Pitta iris Gould, 1842

The rainbow pitta (Pitta iris) is a small Australian endemic bird with distinctive plumage found in northern Australian forests.

Pitta megarhyncha Schlegel, 1863

Pitta megarhyncha, the mangrove pitta, is a mangrove-dwelling bird native to parts of South and Southeast Asia.

Pitta nympha Temminck & Schlegel, 1850

Pitta nympha, the fairy pitta, is a small colorful migratory Asian bird with specific breeding habitat preferences.

Erythropitta ussheri (Gould, 1877)

Erythropitta ussheri is a small distinctively marked pitta found only in lowland forests of Sabah, northern Borneo.

Hydrornis irena (Temminck, 1836)

Hydrornis irena, the Malayan banded pitta, is a colourful colourful bird native to tropical southeastern Asia that feeds mainly on insects and fruits.

Pitta guajana (Statius Muller, 1776)

The Javan banded pitta is a Pittidae bird species found in Java and Bali, formerly lumped with related species as the banded pitta.

Pitta elliotii Oustalet, 1874

Bar-bellied pitta (Hydrornis elliotii) is a Pittidae bird found in Indochina, living in seasonal tropical forest.

Pitta cyanea Blyth, 1843

Pitta cyanea (blue pitta) is a medium-sized shy forest passerine bird found across parts of South and Southeast Asia.

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