Blue-winged Pitta
Pitta moluccensis(Müller, PLS, 1776)
English (US) Blue-winged Pitta
The Blue-winged Pitta (Pitta moluccensis) 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: breeds southeastern Asia from southeastern Myanmar and southern Yunnan (southwestern China) eastward to Vietnam and southward to northern Malayan Peninsula; winters to Greater SundasRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Pitta moluccensis
- Family
- Pittidae (Pittas)
- Order
- Passeriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Blue-winged Pitta
- Described by
- (Müller, PLS, 1776)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Turdus Moluccensis
- Described by
- (Müller, PLS, 1776)
- Type locality
- Moluccas; error, emended to Tenasserim, by Baker, 1930, Fauna Brit. India, 7, p. 296; furtber emended to Malacca by Deignan, 1963, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 226, p. 98.
- Original description
- Des Ritters Carl von Linné ... vollständigen Natursystems Supplements- und Register-Band über alle sechs Theile oder Classen des Thierreichs p.144
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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