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Fairy pitta

Pitta nympha Temminck & Schlegel, 1847

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The fairy pitta (Pitta nympha) is a species in the family Pittidae, order Passeriformes. Recorded adults weigh 71.5 g to 110.1 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Vulnerable.

Fairy pitta (Pitta nympha)
Photo: Jason Thompson from Bangkok, Thailand · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the fairy pitta

Weight
71.5 g – 110.1 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
4.9src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Migratorysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Vulnerable (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Where does the fairy pitta live?

Not recorded

What is the fairy pitta?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The fairy pitta (Pitta nympha) is a small and brightly colored species of passerine bird in the family Pittidae. Its diet mainly consists of earthworms, spiders, insects, slugs, and snails. The fairy pitta breeds in East Asia and migrates south to winter in Southeast Asia. Due to various habitat and anthropogenic disruptions, such as deforestation, wildfire, hunting, trapping, and cage-bird trade, the fairy pitta is rare and the population is declining in most places. Listed on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Appendix II, this bird is classified as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

From the Wikipedia article “Fairy pitta” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fairy_pitta&oldid=1372324396), 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 fairy pitta endangered?

The fairy pitta is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List: it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.

  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 Vulnerable species. What the categories mean.

How is the fairy pitta classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderPasseriformes
  5. familyPittidae
  6. genusPitta
  7. SpeciesPitta nympha Temminck & Schlegel, 1847

Synonyms Pitta bertae, Pitta brachyura nympha, Pitta cyanoptera, Pitta nympha melli, Pitta nympha nympha, Pitta oreas

Other names and names in other languages (42)
  • بيتا خرافيArabic
  • Пита нимфаBulgarian
  • pita nimfaCatalan
  • pita hnědokorunkatáCzech
  • pita aeliogWelsh
  • NymfepittaDanish
  • NymphenpittaGerman
  • nimfa pitoEsperanto
  • Pita ninfaSpanish
  • Pita NymphaSpanish
  • võlupitaEstonian
  • keijupittaFinnish
  • Brève migratriceFrench
  • prugastoglava pitaCroatian
  • tündérpittaHungarian
  • Paok bidadariIndonesian
  • Pitta ninfaItalian
  • Pitta fatataItalian
  • ヤイロチョウJapanese
  • 팔색조Korean
  • fėjinė pitaLithuanian
  • burvīgā pitaLatvian
  • Burung PacatMalay
  • Chinese PittaDutch
  • kurtaczek bladyPolish
  • شنگھاریا نورنگاWestern Panjabi
  • pita-fadaPortuguese
  • Pita-de-asa-azulPortuguese
  • pita-orientalPortuguese
  • Питта-нимфаRussian
  • pita maľovanáSlovak
  • Vilinska pitaSerbian
  • kinesisk juveltrastSwedish
  • นกแต้วแล้วพันธุ์จีนThai
  • Firuze Omuzlu PittaTurkish
  • піта китайськаUkrainian
  • Đuôi cụt bụng đỏVietnamese
  • 八色鶇Chinese
  • 仙八色鶇Chinese
  • 仙八色鸫Chinese
  • 八色鳥Chinese
  • 八色鳥〔仙八色鳥〕Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the fairy 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 fairy pitta?

An adult fairy pitta weighs 71.5 g – 110.1 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the fairy pitta endangered?

The fairy pitta is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List, meaning it faces a high risk of extinction in the wild.

What kind of animal is the fairy pitta?

The fairy pitta (Pitta nympha) belongs to the family Pittidae in the order Passeriformes.

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

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@misc{fairy_pitta_2026,
  title = {Fairy pitta (Pitta nympha)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/fairy-pitta},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}