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Fw: FW: Birds of the Illawarra - The Noisy Pitta

To: Jennifer Neil <>
Subject: Fw: FW: Birds of the Illawarra - The Noisy Pitta
From: Andrew Taylor <>
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:31:14 +1100
On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 07:23:54PM +1100, Jennifer Neil wrote:
> This Noisy Pitta was found in a small remnant of rainforest in
> Wollongong city in Mangerton Park. Bush regenerators have never
> heard it and there is no other remnant of bushland anywhere near,
> but is a Noisy Pitta.

Chris Chafer has this at
http://users.speedlink.com.au/~cchafer/index.html

"Noisy Pitta Pitta versicolor Rare, summer migrant: Rainforest,
occasionally moist sclerophyll forest. Two specimens shot near Wollongong
in 1877 and 1883. No further records until a lone bird was observed in
a small area of littoral rainforest and lantana thicket at Bass Point,
from 2 to 13 October 1984. Subsequently, one calling at Barren Grounds,
November 1988 and a juvenile from the bottom of Jamberoo Pass, January
1990; a juvenile captured at Kiama, 1993, later released at Minamurra
Rainforest; one calling at Barren Grounds November 1998"

Pitta do turn up a long way from apparently suitable habitat.
There was two reported from inner Sydney last year, one in
Balmain & another in Forest Lodge just across Parramatta Rd
from Sydney Uni. Also one in Berrima  last year (inland&south
from Wollongong).

Andrew

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