Elegant Pitta
Pitta elegans - Brève élégante
Systematics
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Order:
Passeriformes
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Family:
Pittidés
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Genus:
Pitta
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Species:
elegans
Descriptor
Biometrics
- Size: 19 cm
- Wingspan: -
- Weight: 48 à 63 g
Geographic range
Description identification
Elegant Pitta (Pitta elegans) is a species of bird in the Pittidae family.
Subspecific information 3 subspecies
- Pitta elegans elegans (islands between e Sulawesi and w New Guinea)
- Pitta elegans virginalis (Tanahjampea, Kalaotoa, and Kalao. between Sulawesi and Flores.)
- Pitta elegans maria (Sumba. s Lesser Sundas.)
Foreign names
- Brève élégante,
- Pita elegante,
- pita-elegante,
- Schmuckpitta,
- ékszerpitta,
- Elegante Pitta,
- Pitta elegante,
- praktjuveltrast,
- Elegantpitta,
- pita pôvabná,
- pita ozdobná,
- Pragtpitta,
- kaunopitta,
- pita elegant,
- kurtaczek ozdobny,
- Стройная питта,
- Paok laus,
- ティモールノドグロヤイロチョウ,
- 华丽八色鸫,
- 優雅八色鳥,
Habitat
Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Dry, Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland, Subtropical/Tropical Swamp ; Shrubland : Subtropical/Tropical Moist ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land, Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest
Sources of information
- Pittas, Broadbills and Asities, Frank Lambert
- IOC World Bird List (v12.2), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2022.
Other sources of interest
- Accipitriformes
- Anseriformes
- Apodiformes
- Apterygiformes
- Bucerotiformes
- Caprimulgiformes
- Cariamiformes
- Casuariiformes
- Charadriiformes
- Ciconiiformes
- Coliiformes
- Columbiformes
- Coraciiformes
- Cuculiformes
- Eurypygiformes
- Falconiformes
- Galliformes
- Gaviiformes
- Gruiformes
- Leptosomiformes
- Mesitornithiformes
- Musophagiformes
- Opisthocomiformes
- Otidiformes
- Passeriformes
- Pelecaniformes
- Phaethontiformes
- Phoenicopteriformes
- Piciformes
- Podicipediformes
- Procellariiformes
- Psittaciformes
- Pterocliformes
- Rheiformes
- Sphenisciformes
- Strigiformes
- Struthioniformes
- Suliformes
- Tinamiformes
- Trogoniformes