Fairy pitta
| Fairy pitta | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pittidae |
| Genus: | Pitta |
| Species: | P. nympha |
| Binomial name | |
| Pitta nympha Temminck & Schlegel, 1850 | |
The fairy pitta (Pitta nympha) is a small passerine bird. It eats worms, spiders, insects, slugs, and snails. It is also known as the seven-coloured bird.
Distribution and habitat
It breeds in north-east Asia in Japan, South Korea, mainland China and Taiwan, migrant in Thailand and winters mainly on the island of Borneo in east Malaysia, Brunei, and Kalimantan in Indonesia.
Taxonomy
The fairy pitta forms a superspecies with the Indian pitta (P. brachyura), mangrove pitta (P. megarhyncha) and blue-winged pitta (P. moluccensis).
Status and conservation
This bird is classified as vulnerable by BirdLife International, with an estimated population of between 2,500 and 10,000 individuals. Its population is inferred to be rapidly declining due to deforestation in its breeding range, principally for agriculture and timber, locally compounded by trapping for the cagebird trade.
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Pitta nympha". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.