Profile
In flight
Tropical Birds
Fairy Pitta
Pitta nympha
- mythic
- 85 km/h
- Vulnerable
A migrating jewel that summers in East Asian forests and slips south for winter, glimpsed only as a flash of nine colors hopping through the leaf litter. Birders cross seas for one clean look.
- Population
- small and declining, roughly 1,500 to 7,000 mature individuals
- Habitat
- dense broadleaf forest floor, bamboo groves, coastal woodland
- Diet
- earthworms, beetles, snails, ground insects
- Size
- 0.18 m
- Wingspan
- 0.26 m
