Graceful pitta
The graceful pitta (Erythropitta venusta), sometimes alternatively known as the black-crowned pitta (although another species is more regularly called black-crowned pitta (Erythropitta ussheri), is a species of bird in the family Pittidae which occurs in Sumatra, Indonesia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Graceful pitta | |
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Taken at Jurong Bird Park, Singapore | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Order: | Passeriformes |
Family: | Pittidae |
Genus: | Erythropitta |
Species: | E. venusta |
Binomial name | |
Erythropitta venusta (Müller S., 1836) | |
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Gallery
- Illustration by Nicolas Hüet
- Adult and immature
gollark: To be honest, I kind of prefer the original set's egg colors, but the new ones look nice as hatchlings.
gollark: The existing xenowyrm names seem to be Greek-ish, so the new ones are probably similar.
gollark: So it's s[pqrst], I wonder what that is.
gollark: I'm looking at one of them but it hasn't cracked much.
gollark: The "current" eggs seem kind of weird; they weren't announced properly, randomly ended up in the biomes quite late, and now have weird cracks.
References
- BirdLife International (2012). "Erythropitta venusta". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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