Pitta caerulea

– Near Threatened

Taxonomy

Kingdom:	ANIMALIA
Phylum:	CHORDATA
Class:	AVES
Order:	PASSERIFORMES
Family:	PITTIDAE
Scientific Name:	Pitta caerulea
Species Authority:	(Raffles, 1822)
Common Name/s:	GIANT PITTA (Eng)

Assessment Information

Red List Category & Criteria:

NT ver 3.1 (2001)

Year Assessed:

2004

Assessor/s:

BirdLife International

Evaluator/s:

Stattersfield, A., Benstead, P. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)

Justification:

Nearly qualifies for listing as threatened under criteria A2c+3c; C1.

History:

1988	-	Near-threatened (Collar and Andrew 1988)
1994	-	Lower Risk/near threatened (Collar, Crosby and Stattersfield 1994)
2000	-	Lower Risk/near threatened (BirdLife International 2000)

Geographic Range

Range Description:

Pitta caerulea occurs in the Sundaic lowlands, from south Tenasserim, Myanmar, peninsular Thailand, Sabah, Sarawak and Peninsular Malaysia, Kalimantan and Sumatra (not recorded this century), Indonesia and Brunei, in forests and bamboo to 1,200 m. Forest destruction in the Sundaic lowlands of Indonesia has been so extensive that all primary formations are expected to disappear by 2010, and the situation is little different in Malaysia, but the species's use of submontane slopes, where forest destruction has been considerably less severe, and tolerance of second growth implies that it is not immediately threatened.

Countries:

Native:

Brunei Darussalam; Indonesia; Malaysia; Myanmar; Thailand

Habitat and Ecology

System:

Terrestrial

List of Habitats:

1.6	Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
1.9	Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane

Threats

List of Threats:

1.9	Habitat Loss/Degradation - Unknown causes (ongoing)

Bibliography

Bibliography:

Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.

Bird Reference Citations. The numbers inserted in the text accounts above (usually in bold) refer to references. For further details on these references, click on the BirdLife International link above to go to the specific species account on the BirdLife web site. In some cases, particularly in the taxonomic notes, the references are cited using the author names. Details for these can be found on the BirdLife International web site at the following two places: For References from A–L. For References from M–Z.

BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.

BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.

Collar, N.J. and Andrew, P. 1988. Birds to Watch. The ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Page Bros. (Norwich) Ltd, Norfolk, England.

Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.

Citation:	BirdLife International 2004. Pitta caerulea. In: IUCN 2007. 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 15 May 2008.
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