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Indian Pitta

Pitta brachyura

IUCN: Least Concern
Indian Pitta (Pitta brachyura) photographed by Devendra Bhardwaj

Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Malviya Nagar, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized

Scientific name
Pitta brachyura
Family
Pittidae, order Passeriformes
Group
Bird
Conservation status
Least Concern

A rainbow-coloured bird of the forest floor.

  • Spot it Green, blue, red and white colours with a short tail.
  • Home Shady scrub and forest floor.
  • Food web Hunts worms and insects in leaf litter.
  • Why it matters Controls litter insects and shows healthy forest-floor habitat.

Read more: Indian pitta on Wikipedia

Sources and credits

Records and field notes

  • RajasthanDevendra Bhardwaj has 1 verified record of this species on iNaturalist in 2011, in Jaipur.[20]

Sources

  1. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
  2. Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
  3. GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
  4. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
  5. Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.

The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.

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