Graceful Pitta

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Graceful Pitta
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pittidae
Genus: Pitta
Species: P. venusta
Binomial name
Pitta venusta
Müller, 1835

The Graceful Pitta, Pitta venusta, is a species of bird in the Pittidae family which occurs in Malaysia and Indonesia. The Malaysian form is sometimes split as the Black-headed Pitta, Pitta ussheri (Gould 1877), in which case the Graceful Pitta is endemic to Indonesia.

Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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