Elegant Pitta

Elegant Pitta belongs to passerine bird in the pitta family Pittidae. Temminck coined the binomial name Pitta elegans. The elegant pitta has sometimes been treated as a subspecies of the Indian pitta (P. brachyura), noisy pitta (P. versicolor) or blue-winged pitta (P. moluccensis). Its natural range is restricted to the Lesser Sunda Islands and Moluccas in Indonesia. Its natural habitats are tropical dry forests and tropical moist lowland forests. (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its natural range is restricted to Indonesia, where it is found in the Lesser Sunda Islands and Moluccas. The elegant pitta was described and illustrated by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck in 1836 from a specimen collected on the island of Timor. It is reported as also being found in East Timor by some authors. the species has only been recorded on the western half of the island, in spite of suitable habitat. (Wikipedia, general species account).