Louisiade Pitta

When to see the Louisiade Pitta

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 3 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Louisiade Pitta

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Louisiade Pitta

The Louisiade pitta is a species of the pitta. It was considered a subspecies of the red-bellied pitta. It is endemic to Rossel Island in the Louisiade Archipelago in Papua New Guinea. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It may be threatened by habitat loss, but is currently listed by the IUCN as Data Deficient as there have been no definite records since the type specimen was collected in 1898. However an expedition to the island in 2014 revealed that local people said they still encountered it. In 2022, British tourist Michael Smith found two alive individuals with clear photograph evidence.

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Easily confused with

Philippine PittaErythropitta erythrogasterThe Philippine pitta or blue-breasted pitta, is a species of bird in the family Pittidae. Sulawesi PittaErythropitta celebensisThe Sulawesi pitta is a species of pitta. North Moluccan PittaErythropitta rufiventrisThe North Moluccan pitta is a species of the pitta.