Malayan Banded Pitta

As Malcom pointed out and corrected me, the scientific name is Pitta irena. Should add that to spotting.

Great capture KhaoyaiNaturelifeTours,impossible bird :-) looks like getting out of a fairy tail story,beautiful,congrats thanks for sharing and welcome to Project Noah. I hope you like the site us much we do,there are many features you can explore,first you should read the http://www.projectnoah.org/faq where you have all the "rules" of Project Noah :-) You have also a blog http://blog.projectnoah.org/ where we post articles from our best specialists in the diferents areas and also storys of wildlife "adventures" from our most knowened users. There are also the chats for elp in the id process and to comment your's and other's spottings. Attention when join local missions http://www.projectnoah.org/missions they have a range that is in the mission map,see first that before join.you only can submit spotting in a mission if the photos where taken inside the mission range. Enjoy your self,see you arround :-)

Very good, Impressive !!!

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Indeed Stunning :)

Stunning!

I don't think I can add anymore accolades. Well done! Beautiful bird.

what an incredible little bird! its surprising to me how short the tail is.

Wonderful!

Beautiful series! Welcome to the community KhaoyaiNaturelifeTours!

Very Cool!

Pittas tend to be very set in their ways, often feeding at the same location at the same time, but they will fly off at the slightest disturbance. If you can find where and when and set up beforehand staying quiet and still you should be able to get good views and pictures. I have done this in Goa, hiding in a ditch and in the mountains of Sri Lanka hiding behind a large rock. They tend to stay in the same small area and feed for half an hour or more.

Its great when they are so co-operative with photo taking. lovely photos

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Though I say that is one colorful bird and love how you were able to get all the sides of it.

To clarify further, Hydrornis is a synonym for Pitta so either is acceptable, however guajana was the former name but since the species split should only be used for the Javan species and not the Malayan species. The correct scientific name to be used should be either "Pitta irena" or "Hydrornis irena".

To be precise, the following note is taken from Clements checklist v6.7: "Banded Pitta Pitta guajana is split into three species, following Rheindt and Eaton (2010): Malayan Banded-Pitta (Pitta irena), Bornean Banded-Pitta (Pitta schwaneri), and Javan Banded-Pitta (Pitta guajana). Also, subspecies ripleyi is merged with irena, following Rheindt and Eaton (2010); revise the range of irena from ""Malay Peninsula and Sumatra"" to ""s Peninsular Thailand, Malay Peninsula and Sumatra"". "

beautiful,,, amazing

Beautiful !

Here's the scientific name to include. Hydrornis (guajana) irena

lovely...full of colours

Such a beautiful bird, you took an amazing capture Khaoyai!

It seems your map pin had become "lost" so I have moved it into the Gulf of Thailand, you should be able to go into edit and place it correctly now. Nice spotting, I have yet to see one of these , in the wild anyway.

What country did you find this? I never heard of Ross Dependency. It is New Zealand claimed Antarctica.

Great series and such a awesome little bird!

Very nice series.

nice !

Beautiful series!

Wonderful bird & photos!

Lovely series of pics, beautiful plumage. Great spotting!

Beautiful !

Lovely bird ...what colours !!

Lovely bird, gorgeous colors. KhaoyaiNaturelifeTours, is the last picture perhaps another bird?, it looks different than the cute bird in the 4 pictures???!!