| Fairy pitta | |
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| in Taiwan | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Pittidae |
| Genus: | Pitta |
| Species: | P. nympha
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| Binomial name | |
| Pitta nympha | |
The fairy pitta (Pitta nympha) is a small and brightly colored species of passerine bird in the family Pittidae. Its diet mainly consists of earthworms, spiders, insects, slugs, and snails. The fairy pitta breeds in East Asia and migrates south to winter in Southeast Asia. Due to various habitat and anthropogenic disruptions, such as deforestation, wildfire, hunting, trapping, and cage-bird trade, the fairy pitta is rare and the population is declining in most places.[3] Listed on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendix II, this bird is classified as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[1]
- ^ a b BirdLife International. (2017) [amended version of 2016 assessment]. "Pitta nympha". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T22698684A116880779. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
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