Blue-winged Pitta

What the Blue-winged Pitta sounds like

Recorded by Gerard Chartier · Song · Ruessei Chrum (near Tatai), Koh Kong District, Koh Kong Province, Cambodia · CC BY 4.0 · via xeno-canto

Recorded by Izuan Izham · Call · Raja Tun Uda Library, Shah Alam, Malaysia · CC0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

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When to see the Blue-winged Pitta

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is May, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Blue-winged Pitta

The map shades 12 countries with regular records, and 3 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in Australia, India, Hong Kong SAR China.

About the Blue-winged Pitta

The blue-winged pitta is a passerine bird in the family Pittidae. It forms a superspecies with three other pittas, the Indian pitta, the fairy pitta and the mangrove pitta. A colourful bird, it has a black head with a buff stripe above the eye, a white collar, greenish upper parts, blue wings, buff underparts and a reddish vent area. Its range extends from India to Malaysia, Indonesia, southern China and the Philippines. Its habitat is moist woodland, parks and gardens and it avoids dense forest. It feeds mainly on insects and worms. It breeds in the spring, building an untidy spherical nest on the ground, often near water and between tree roots.

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Easily confused with

Western Hooded PittaPitta sordidaThe western hooded pitta is a passerine bird in the family Pittidae. Rainbow PittaPitta irisThe rainbow pitta is 16 to 18 cm (6.3–7.1 in) in length, and weighs 52–88 g (1.8–3.1 oz). Mangrove PittaPitta megarhynchaMeasuring 180 to 210 mm (7.1–8.3 in) in length, the mangrove pitta has a black head with a buff-coloured crown, white chin and buff underparts.

Side by side: Blue-winged Pitta vs Indian Pitta · Blue-winged Pitta vs Noisy Pitta · Blue-winged Pitta vs Rainbow Pitta