Nicobar Hooded Pitta
Pitta abbotti
Endemic to Great and Little Nicobar Islands, where it inhabits lush forests. A jewel of a bird, with an emerald-green body, black head, scarlet lower belly, and chestnut crown. Like other pittas, forages on the forest floor, where it can be difficult to see. Listen for its song, a series of three to four barking notes. Formerly grouped together with several other closely related species as “Hooded Pitta.”
分类信息
The Nicobar hooded pitta was formally described in 1902 by the American ornithologist Charles Wallace Richmond from a specimen collected by the naturalist William Louis Abbott on Great Nicobar Island in the eastern Indian Ocean. Richmond coined the binomial name Pitta abbotti where the specific epithet was chosen to honour the collector. The Nicobar hooded pitta was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the hooded pitta (Pitta sordida) (now the western hooded pitta). It is considered as a separate species based on the significant genetic and morphological differences. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.
- 学名
- Pitta abbotti
- 命名信息
- Richmond, 1902
- 目
- Passeriformes
- 科
- Pittidae
- 属
- Pitta
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