Green-breasted Pitta (Pitta reichenowi)

Family
Pittidae (Pittas)

Size
19 - 21 cm

First Described (Guide)
Madar�sz, 1901

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From 1,100 - 1,400 m.

Range (Guide)

Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Congo [The Democratic Republic of the], Gabon, Uganda.

Western and southern Cameroon to northern Gabon, and south-western Central African Republic, west, south-central and north-eastern Zaire and south-western Uganda (Budongo Forest south to Kabale and east to Jinja).

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (8)...)

Green-breasted Pitta (Pitta reichenowi) [XC612222]
by Peter Boesman from Kibale, Kamwenge, Western Region, Uganda (call, display)

Green-breasted Pitta (Pitta reichenowi) [XC854619]
by Jesse Fagan from Kibale, Kamwenge, Western Region, Uganda (?)

Subspecies
African Pitta (Pitta angolensis) and Green-breasted Pitta (Pitta reichenowi) (Sibley and Monroe 1990, 1993) are retained as separate species contra Dowsett and Forbes-Watson (1993) who include reichenowi as a subspecies of African Pitta (Pitta angolensis).

Forms a superspecies with African Pitta (Pitta angolensis), and has been considered conspecific on basis of apparent intermediate birds from Cameroon and southern Congo, but this is doubtful.

No subspecies.

References
See References.

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