Noisy pitta diet

[Kingfisher Park Birdwatchers Lodge <>]

Hi Andrew,
We had a Noisy Pitta last year who came in to eat banana. This year we 
had one eating the entrails of a dead Northern Brown Bandicoot. We 
watched it and it was definitely not picking insects off.
Cheers,
Keith & Lindsay.

    Keith & Lindsay Fisher
    Kingfisher Park Birdwatchers Lodge
    RN 6 Mt. Kooyong Road
    Julatten QLD 4871
    Ph : (07) 4094 1263
    Web Site: www.birdwatchers.com.au
    Blog: http://kingfisherparkbirdwatchers.blogspot.com/

On 31/07/2014 1:43 PM, Andrew Thelander wrote:
> Hi all
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> A friend at Mt Nebo, Brisbane, has a local Noisy pitta that likes eating 
> banana. I thought this odd but the Handbook of the Birds of the World confirms 
> that they do eat some vegetable matter such as fruit, berries and seeds.
>
> Has anybody observed Noisy pittas eating vegetable matter?
>
> cheers
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> Andrew
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