Endangered
Superb Pitta
Pitta superba
The superb pitta is a large pitta that is endemic to Manus Island that lies to the north of Papua New Guinea.
Appearance
It has black plumage with turquoise blue wings, a scarlet belly and green-tipped secondaries.
The superb pitta is about 22 cm (8.7 in) long.
Range and habitat
The superb pitta is distributed and endemic to primary and secondary forests of Manus Island of Papua New Guinea. Due to ongoing habitat loss, limited range and small population size, it is evaluated as endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. The superb pitta is a large pitta that is endemic to Manus Island that lies to the north of Papua New Guinea.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Habits
Perching birds hold with three toes forward and one back. A named island starling or leafbird in this catalog is a wild population, not a cage type.
In crisis
Superb Pitta is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Superb Pitta, Wikidata item Q938195. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
