Pittas are a family of passerine birds mainly found in tropical Asia and Australasia, although a couple of species live in Africa. Pittas are all similar in general structure and habits. The name is derived from the word pitta in the Telugu language of Andhra Pradesh in India and is a generic local name used for all small birds. Pittas are medium-sized by passerine standards, at 15 to 25 centimetres in length, and stocky, with longish strong legs and long feet. They have very short tails and stout, slightly decurved bills. Many, but not all, have brightly coloured plumageThese are fairly terrestrial birds of wet forest floors. They eat snails, insects and similar invertebrate prey. Pittas are mostly solitary and lay up to six eggs in a large spherical nest in a tree or shrub, or sometimes on the ground. Both parents care for the young.
Genus Erythropitta Found: southeast Asia and one species also in Australasia
Pitta,_Black-headed also Black-crowned Pitta Erythropitta ussheri Found: Borneo
Image by: 1) Charles Sharp - Borneo 2) Mike_Prince
Pitta,_Blue-banded Erythropitta arquata Found: Borneo
Image by: 1) Jacques_Erard 2) Yeo_Siew_Teck
Pitta,_Garnet Erythropitta granatina Found: Borneo, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand
Image by: 1) Parinya_Padungtin 2) hanifridz
1, 2) E. g. coccinea 2)
Pitta,_Graceful Erythropitta venusta Found: Malasia, Indonesia
Image by: 1) Dougjj - Jurong Bird Park, Singapore 2) Dave_Gandy - West Sumatra
Pitta,_Papuan Erythropitta macklotii Found: New Guinea
Image by: 1) Nicolas_Huet
Pitta,_Red-bellied Erythropitta erythrogaster Found: Australia, New Guinea, Philippines
The male Red-bellied Pitta has red-brown crown, nape, side of neck; cinnamon cheeks; blue upper-mantle; dark green lower mantle; blue rump, tail; red belly. Female duller and more green; red belly. The North Moluccan (E. e. rufiventris) and South Moluccan Pitta (E, e. rubrinucha) are also consider to be separate species
Image by: 1, 2) Katerina_Tvardikov - New Guineaa 3) Jason_Thompson - North Sulawesi 4) Francesco_Veronesi - Luzon
Pitta,_Sangihe Erythropitta caeruleitorques Found: Sangihe Islands of Indonesia
Image by: 1) John_Gerrard_Keulemans
Pitta,_Sula Erythropitta dohertyi Found: Sula and Banggai Islands of the Philippines
Image by: 1) John_Gerrard_Keulemans 2) Filip_Verbelen 3) Bram_Demeulemeester
Pitta,_Sulawesi Erythropitta celebensis Found: Sulawesi, Manterawu, and Togian Islands of Indonesia
Image by: 1) Patko_Erica 2) Bijdragen
1) Juvenile
Pitta,_Whiskered Erythropitta kochi Found: Luzon in Philippines
Image by: 1) Joseph_Smit 2) P_Khoo 3) Yann_Muzka
Genus Hydrornis
Found : southeas Asia
Pitta,_Bar-bellied also Elliot's Pitta Hydrornis elliotii Found: Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
Image by: 1, 3) Mohit_Kumar_Ghatak - Vietnam 2) Piyushgtg - Vietnam
Pitta,_Blue Hydrornis cyaneus Found: China, India, southeast Asia
Image by: 1, 2) JJ_Harrison - Thailand 3) Jason_Thompson - Thailand
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Pitta,_Blue-headed Hydrornis baudii Endemic to Borneo
The male Blue-heade Pitta has chestnut-red back; bright blue crown; black cheeks, breast-band; white throat; violet tail, belly; black wings marked with white. Female has buff back, head, underparts; blue tail.
Image by: 1) Kokay Szabolcs 2) Vun_Soo_Kiong - Malaysia 3) Charles_Leavell - Malaysia Mark_Gurney
2) Female 3, 4) Male
Pitta,_Blue-naped Hydrornis nipalensis Found: Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Vietnam.
The Blue-naped Pitta green upperparts;; brown tail with some green. Male has blue nape.
Image by: 1) Rofikul_Islam - India 2) Jainy_Kuriakose - India 3) Marc_Ameels 4) Imram1) Juvenile 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Pitta,_Blue-rumped Hydrornis soror Found: Cambodia, China, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
Image by: 1) Parinya_Padungtin - Vietnam 2) Mohit_Kumar_Ghatak - Vietnam 3) Yann_Muzka - Vietnam
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Pitta,_Bornean-banded Hydrornis schwaneri Found: Borneo
The Bornean-banded Pitta, Javan-banded Pitta, and Malayan-banded Pitta were previously considered one species - the Banded Pitta.
Image by: 1) P_Khoo 2) John_Gould James_Eaton
2) Pair 3) Male
Pitta,_Eared Hydrornis phayrei Found: Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
Image by: 1) Outram Bangs 2) James_Eaton 3) Peter_Ericsson - Thailand
1) Left - female, Right- male 2) Female 3) Male
Pitta,_Giant Hydrornis caeruleus Found: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand
Image by: 1) Quarti 2) Jacques_Erard - Borneo 3)Cheng_Heng_Yee - Thailand
1, 2) Female 3) Male
Pitta,_Gurney's Hydrornis gurneyi Found: Myanma, Thailand
Image by: 1) Ron_Knight 2) Francesco_Veronesi 3) Michael_Gillam
1,2 ) Female 3) Male
Pitta,_Javan-banded Hydrornis guajanus Found: Java and Bali Indonesia
The Bornean-banded Pitta, Javan-banded Pitta, and Malayan-banded Pitta were previously considered one species - the Banded Pitta.
Image by: 1, 2) Doug_Janson 3) Waskito_Kukuh
Pitta,_Malayan-banded Hydrornis irena Found: Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra
The Bornean-banded Pitta, Javan-banded Pitta, and Malayan-banded Pitta were previously considered one species - the Banded Pitta.
Image by: 1) Hiyashi_Haka 2) JJ_Harrison - Thailand 3) Jason_Thompson - Thailand 4) Francesco_Veronesi - Thailand 
.jpg){kind=link}
Pitta,_Rusty-naped Hydrornis oatesi Found: hina, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
The male Rusty-naped Pitta has deep brown head with rusty nape; brown underparts; small black stripe hehind eyes. Female duller than male with vague dark scaling on lower throat.
Image by: 1, 2) JJ_Harrison 3) Jerry_Oldenettel - Thailand 4) Jason_Thompson - Thailand
Pitta,_Schneider's Hydrornis schneideri Found: Sumatra in Indonesia
Image by: 1, 4) James_Eaton 2) Justin_Rayboun_Smith 3) Janos_Olah
1) Juvenile 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Genus Pitta
Found : mainly Asia; 2 in Africa; a few in Australasia
Species in Genus Pitta are secretive, brightly coloured birds that forage on the forest floor.
Pitta,_African Pitta angolensis Found: Afica
The African Pitta has green upperparts; pale blue upper-tail, rump; broad black eye streak, crown; buff supercilium; olive-yellow breast; red belly.
Image by: 1) Nrg800 2) Graeme_White 3) Derek_Keats
Pitta,_Azure-breasted Pitta steerii Found: Philippines
Image by: 1) Philippine_Post 2) Jainy_Maria
Pitta,_Black-faced Pitta anerythra Found: Buka Island in New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikova 2) Guy_Dutson - Solomon Islands
Pitta,_Blue-winged Pitta moluccensis Found: southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia
The Blue-winged Pitta has mainly green upperparts; blue wings; reddish vent; mainly black head; buff supercilium; buff underparts.
Similar to: Mangrove Pitta. The Mangrove Pitta has much bigger bill than Blue-winged Pitta.
Image by: 1, 5) Doug Janson 2) JJ_Harrison - Thailand 3) Andy_Li 4) Suzana_KSimilar to: Mangrove Pitta. The Mangrove Pitta has much bigger bill than Blue-winged Pitta.
Pitta,_Elegant Pitta elegans Found: Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia and East Timor
Image by: Jeff Delonge 2) Peter_Ericsson 3) Yann_Muzka
Pitta,_Fairy Pitta nympha Found: Borneo, China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan
The Fariy Pitta has green mantle; green and cobalt shoulders and upper-tail; blue rump; dark green tail with cobalt tip; chestnut crown; whitish supercilium; wide black eye-line; mainly cream colored underpart turning to red at belly.
Image by: 1) Jason Thompson - Thailand 2) Alnus 3) 2015Hank - Taiwan 4) Hiyashi_Haka
Pitta,_Garnet Pitta granatina Found: Asia
Image by: Kokay Szabolc
Pitta,_Green-breasted Pitta reichenowi Found: Africa
The Green-breasted Pitta has black mask; white throat; green breast.
Image by: 1) Greg_Miles- Uganda
Pitta,_Hooded Pitta sordida Found: southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, New Guinea
The Hooded Pitta has dark-green upperparts; black head, chin, throat; white patch on primaries; blue-green lower-breast, belly; black patch on central belly; some have chestnut crown.
Image by: 1, 2) Katerina_Tvardikova - New Guinea 3, 4) Dick Daniels - San Diego Zoo 5) JJ_Harrison 6) Jason_Thompson - Thailand
Pitta,_Indian Pitta brachyura Found: Asia
The Indian Pitta has green upperparts, blue tail; mainly buff underparts; red lower belly; thick black eye-line; buff crown stripe; white throat, neck.
Image by: 1) nidhingpoothully 2) Koshy_Koshy- India 3) Tarique_Sani 4) Shantanu_Kuveskar
_Photograph_by_Shantanu_Kuveskar.jpg){kind=link}
Pitta,_Ivory-breasted Pitta maxima Found: North Maluku in Indonesia
Image by: 1) Marcel_Holyoak 2) Yann_Muzka
Pitta,_Mangrove Pitta megarhyncha Found: Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia
The Mangrove Pitta has greenish upperparts; reddish vent; wide black eye-line; buff crown; white chin; buff underparts.
Image by: 1, 3) Darren_Bellerby - Singapore 2) Dchai
Pitta,_Noisy Pitta versicolor Found: Australia, Indonesia
The Noisy Pitta has green back, wings; black head, nape with chrestnut crown; black tail.
Image by: 1, 2) Carmy Carms 3) Tatters - Queensland 4) David_Cook - New South Wales
Pitta,_Rainbow Pitta iris Found: Australia
The Rainbow Pitta has green upperparts; pale blue shoulder; black head, underparts, bill; reddish-brown streak along side of crown; pink legs.
Image by: 1) Geoff_Whalan - Northern Territory 2) Leo_UdB 3) Tom_Tarrant 4) Lip Kee Yap 
Pitta,_Superb Pitta superba Found: island northeast of New Guinea
Image by: 1) Katerina_Tvardikov 2) Geoff_Jones
