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Black-faced pitta

Pitta anerythra Rothschild, 1901

NTNear Threatenedsongbirds

The black-faced pitta (Pitta anerythra) is a species in the family Pittidae, order Passeriformes. Recorded adults weigh 85 g to 86 g. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Near Threatened.

Black-faced pitta (Pitta anerythra)
Photo: John Gerrard Keulemans · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the black-faced pitta

Weight
86 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Invertivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
forestsrc for Habitat
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Partialsrc for Migration
Conservation status
Near Threatened (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the black-faced pitta live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

The black-faced pitta is listed for 1 country.

Australia
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Australia

Why a country list is not a range map

Listed by: ITIS (scope: global), through the Catalogue of Life.

What is the black-faced pitta?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The black-faced pitta (Pitta anerythra) is a species of bird in the family Pittidae. It is found on Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea (subspecies pallida), and Choiseul Island (subspecies nigrifrons) as well as Santa Isabel Island (nominate form) in the Solomon Islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest. It is threatened by habitat loss and most certainly by introduced predators and/or competitors.

From the Wikipedia article “Black-faced pitta” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Black-faced_pitta&oldid=1352366336), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the black-faced pitta endangered?

The black-faced pitta is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List: it is close to qualifying as threatened.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Near Threatened species. What the categories mean.

How is the black-faced pitta classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderPasseriformes
  5. familyPittidae
  6. genusPitta
  7. SpeciesPitta anerythra Rothschild, 1901
Other names and names in other languages (37)
  • Solomons pittaEnglish
  • Solomons pittaEnglish
  • بيتا أسود الوجهArabic
  • pita caranegreCatalan
  • pita černolícíCzech
  • pita wynebdduWelsh
  • MaskepittaDanish
  • MaskenpittaGerman
  • Salomonen-PittaGerman
  • SalomonenpittaGerman
  • SchwarzgesichtpittaGerman
  • nigramaska pitoEsperanto
  • Pita carinegraSpanish
  • saalomonisaarte pitaEstonian
  • پیتای سیاهچهرهPersian
  • salomoninpittaFinnish
  • Brève masquéeFrench
  • solomonska pitaCroatian
  • feketearcú pittaHungarian
  • Pitta faccianeraItalian
  • カオグロヤイロチョウJapanese
  • juodaveidė pitaLithuanian
  • ZwartmaskerpittaDutch
  • salomonpittaNorwegian
  • kurtaczek czarnolicyPolish
  • کالے مونہوالا نورنگاWestern Panjabi
  • pita-das-salomãoPortuguese
  • pita-de-faces-pretasPortuguese
  • Чернолицая питтаRussian
  • pita maskováSlovak
  • Crnolika pitaSerbian
  • svartmaskad juveltrastSwedish
  • Kara Yüzlü PittaTurkish
  • піта чорнощокаUkrainian
  • Đuôi cụt mặt đenVietnamese
  • 黑脸八色鸫Chinese
  • 黑臉八色鳥Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the black-faced pitta

Other species in the same genus Pitta.

LC, Least Concern

Indian pitta

Pitta brachyura

PittidaeNo free photo yet

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the black-faced pitta?

An adult black-faced pitta weighs 86 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the black-faced pitta live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list the black-faced pitta for 1 country: Australia. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is the black-faced pitta endangered?

The black-faced pitta is listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is close to qualifying as threatened.

What kind of animal is the black-faced pitta?

The black-faced pitta (Pitta anerythra) belongs to the family Pittidae in the order Passeriformes.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-11. How this page is put together.

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BibTeX
@misc{black_faced_pitta_2026,
  title = {Black-faced pitta (Pitta anerythra)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/black-faced-pitta},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}