Blue-rumped Pitta (Hydrornis soror)

Other Names (World)
Blue-rumped Pitta, Blue-headed Pitta(!), Blue-backed Pitta

Family
Pittidae (Pittas)

Size
20 - 22 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Wardlaw-Ramsay, 1881)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. From 50 - 1,700 m.

Range (Guide)

Cambodia (B), China (mainland) (B), Laos (B), Thailand (B), Vietnam (B).

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (22)...)

Blue-rumped Pitta (Hydrornis soror) [XC312075]
by Dave GUO from Nho Quan, Ninh B\u00ecnh, Vietnam (call)

Blue-rumped Pitta (Hydrornis soror) [XC19215]
by Frank Lambert from Cuc Phuong, Vietnam (song)

Subspecies
Has on occasion been placed in a separate genus, Hydrornis, along with Blue-naped Pitta (Hydrornis nipalensis) and Rusty-naped Pitta (Hydrornis oatesi) these being closely related. Populations of south-eastern Laos and central Annam often separated as subspecies annamensis on basis of geographically discrete range coupled with more extensive lilac colour on face and crown. But owing to great variation in, especially, amount of lilac, however, and insufficient museum material and field studies, considered better treated as synonymous with nominate.

The following 5 subspecies are recognised:

tonkinensis (Delacour, 1927) - Southern China (Guangxi) and northern Vietnam (central Tonkin).
petersi (Delacour, 1934) - South-eastern Tonkin, northern Annam and central Laos.
douglasi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1910) - Hainan.
soror (Wardlaw-Ramsay, 1881) - South-eastern Laos and Vietnam (central and southern Annam, Cochinchina).
flynnstonei (Rozendaal, 1993) - South-eastern Thailand and south-western Cambodia.

References
See References.

Files:

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