Species
Near Threatenedvia IUCN
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- species
- IUCN conservation status
- Near Threatened
- taxon name
- Pitta anerythra
- taxon common name
- pita-das-salomão
- Commons category
- Pitta anerythra
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Encyclopedic overview
The black-faced pitta (Pitta anerythra) is a species of bird in the family Pittidae. It is found on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea (subspecies pallida), and Choiseul Island (subspecies nigrifrons) as well as Santa Isabel Island (nominate form) in the Solomon Islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. It is threatened by habitat loss and most certainly by introduced predators and/or competitors.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Black-faced Pitta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.