Noisy pitta
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pittidae |
| Genus: | Pitta |
| Species: | P. versicolor |
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Pitta versicolor Swainson, 1825 |
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The noisy pitta (Pitta versicolor) is a species of bird in the family Pittidae. It is also known as the buff-breasted pitta, the lesser pitta, and the blue-winged pitta (Pitta moluccensis is another species known as the blue-winged pitta, which sometimes leads to confusion in applying their common names). The noisy pitta occurs in Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. It eats earthworms, insects and snails. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Some authorities believe that Pitta versicolor is conspecific with Pitta elegans or with Pitta iris but it is usually regarded as forming a superspecies with these two species and with Pitta anerythra. There are two subspecies with a demarcation line around Cairns. Pitta versicolor simillima Gould, 1868 occurs in northern Queensland and the islands of the Torres Strait. The members of this subspecies migrate to the southern part of Papua New Guinea. Pitta versicolor versicolor Swainson, 1825 is found in the rest of Queensland and southward to the Hunter River in New South Wales.
The noisy pitta is a colourful bird. It has a black head and nape of neck with a chestnut crown. The wings are green with a turquoise front edge and the back is also green. The throat, breast and belly are lemon yellow. The tail is black and the under-tail coverts are orange-red.
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