Gurney's Pitta
Hydrornis gurneyi(Hume, AO, 1875)
English (US) Gurney's Pitta
The Gurney's Pitta (Hydrornis gurneyi) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Pittidae (Pittas) in the order Passeriformes.
Range: far southern Myanmar (southern Tenasserim); formerly also peninsular Thailand, where now may be extinctRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Hydrornis gurneyi
- Family
- Pittidae (Pittas)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Critically Endangered
- English (US)
- Gurney's Pitta
- Described by
- (Hume, AO, 1875)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Pitta Gurneyi
- Described by
- (Hume, AO, 1875)
- Type locality
- southern Tenasserim.
- Original description
- Stray Feathers 3 p.296 pl.3
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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