Blue-winged Pitta (Pitta moluccensis)
Order: PASSERIFORMES
Family: PITTIDAE Pittas
Scientific name: Pitta moluccensis
English name: Blue-winged Pitta
Characteristic: "Size 16 cm. Our smallest barbet with a dark green upperpart and yellowish green underpart ; the latter is lightly streaked with green.Its forehead and upper throat, a black frontal spot and a yellow lower breast."
Distribution: "Pakistan,southwestern China, SE Asia,Sumatra,Java and the pHilippines."
Habitat: "Dry evergreen forest,dipterocarp forest and secondary growth."
Habit: "Found mainly as a single bird or in pairs sitting for a long time in tall trees. Diet comprises fruits,insects and their larvae. After being satiated,they will select suitable perches and utter their characteristic tonk,tonk,tonk call for quote a time,or until the hunger will drive them to forage again. Its breeding season falls between february - May ; during this time a pair will excavate a hole in rotting branch for egg-laying. Normal clutch is 2 - 4 eggs, which requiring the incubation period of 13 - 14 days."
Status: a comparatively scarce resident.
