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Gurney's Pitta
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Gurney's Pitta
Hydrornis gurneyi
Gurney's pitta (Hydrornis gurneyi) (Thai: นกแต้วแร้วท้องดำ, lit. "black-bellied pitta") is a medium-sized passerine bird. It breeds in the Malay Peninsula, with populations mainly in Myanmar. The common name and Latin binomial commemorate the British banker and amateur ornithologist John Henry Gurney (1819-1890). Its diet consists of slugs, insects, and earthworms.
From the article Gurney's pitta on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The male has a blue crown and black-and-yellow underparts; the rest of the head is black, and it has warm brown upperparts. The female has a brown crown and buffy-whitish underparts.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 367612.