Hi all,
further to Mike's post yesterday, I have seen the photo and had time to check
the quality references (especially Frank Lambert's Pittas monograph) and it is
clear the bird is a Fairy Pitta, as identified originally. This will be a first
for Australia pending acceptance by BARC. Key features to tell it from
Blue-winged are the paler creamy-buff supercilium flanked by a broader chestnut
coronal stripe, small, paler blue wing patch visible in the folded wing, the
lesser extent of red on the lower belly and undertail coverts and the paler
underparts. A smaller white primary patch (probably comparable in size to that
of a Forest Kingfisher) would be visible in flight, but is not visible in the
photo. Well done to those who found and reported this rarity, Australia's fifth
species of Pitta.
Cheers, Peter.
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