Garnet Pitta

When to see the Garnet Pitta

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is July, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Garnet Pitta

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 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 Thailand.

About the Garnet Pitta

The garnet pitta is a species of bird in the family Pittidae. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. It is threatened by habitat loss. The form occurring in the Malaysian state of Sabah has been split as the black-crowned pitta.

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Easily confused with

Blue-banded PittaErythropitta arquataThe blue-banded pitta is a species of bird in the family Pittidae. Whiskered PittaErythropitta kochiThe whiskered pitta is a species of bird in the family Pittidae. Graceful PittaErythropitta venustaThe graceful pitta is a petite bird that measures approximately 18 cm (7.1 in) in length.