Mangrove Pitta

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When to see the Mangrove Pitta

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

Where to see the Mangrove Pitta

The map shades 6 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Mangrove Pitta

The mangrove pitta is a species of passerine bird in the family Pittidae native to the eastern Indian subcontinent and western Southeast Asia. It is part of a superspecies where it is placed with the Indian pitta, the fairy pitta and the blue-winged pitta but has no recognized subspecies. A colourful bird, it has a black head with brown crown, white throat, greenish upper parts, buff underparts and reddish vent area. Its range extends from India to Malaysia and Indonesia. It is found in mangrove and nipa palm forests where it feeds on crustaceans, mollusks and insects. Its call, sometimes rendered as wieuw-wieuw, is sung from a high perch on a mangrove tree.

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Easily confused with

Eastern Hooded PittaPitta novaeguineaeThe eastern hooded pitta is a passerine bird in the pitta family Pittidae that is endemic to New Guinea and some of the small neighbouring islands. Fairy PittaPitta nymphaThe fairy pitta has a body length of 16–19.5 cm (6.3–7.7 in) and is easily discernible for its plumage of seven different colors reminiscent of a rainbow. Ornate PittaPitta concinnaThe ornate pitta is a species of bird in the family Pittidae.