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Noisy pitta

Pitta versicolor Swainson, 1825

LCLeast Concernsongbirds

The noisy pitta (Pitta versicolor) is a species in the family Pittidae, order Passeriformes. Recorded adults weigh 88.9 g to 99.3 g. Source checklists list it for 1 country: Australia. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Noisy pitta (Pitta versicolor)
Photo: JJ Harrison ( https://tiny.jjharrison.com.au/t/wrlB0uiwLp3IWBAI ) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the noisy pitta

Weight
88.9 g – 99.3 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
3.7 – 3.9src for Young per litter or clutch
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
1 countrysrc for Countries on record

Where does the noisy 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 noisy 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

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

What is the noisy pitta?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The noisy pitta (Pitta versicolor) is a species of bird in the family Pittidae. The noisy pitta is found in eastern Australia and southern New Guinea. It eats earthworms, insects and snails. Its natural habitats are temperate forests, subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest, and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

From the Wikipedia article “Noisy pitta” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Noisy_pitta&oldid=1362019442), 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 noisy pitta endangered?

The noisy pitta is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  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 Least Concern species.

How is the noisy pitta classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderPasseriformes
  5. familyPittidae
  6. genusPitta
  7. SpeciesPitta versicolor Swainson, 1825

Synonyms Pitta strepitans

Other names and names in other languages (37)
  • بيتا صاخبArabic
  • Шумна питаBulgarian
  • pita sorollósCatalan
  • pita hřmotiváCzech
  • pita zvučnohlasáCzech
  • pita swnllydWelsh
  • LarmpittaDanish
  • LärmpittaGerman
  • bruema pitoEsperanto
  • Pita bulliciosaSpanish
  • Pìta bulliciosaSpanish
  • austraalia pitaEstonian
  • پیتای پرسروصداPersian
  • sinappipittaFinnish
  • Brève versicoloreFrench
  • kestenjastokapa pitaCroatian
  • lármás pittaHungarian
  • Paok lantangIndonesian
  • Pitta chiassosaItalian
  • Pitta versicoloreItalian
  • ノドグロヤイロチョウJapanese
  • triukšmingoji pitaLithuanian
  • Australische PittaDutch
  • palettpittaNorwegian
  • kurtaczek hałaśliwyPolish
  • رولا نورنگاWestern Panjabi
  • pita-ruidosaPortuguese
  • pita-versicolorPortuguese
  • Крикливая питтаRussian
  • pita krikľaváSlovak
  • Australijska pitaSerbian
  • larmjuveltrastSwedish
  • Geveze PittaTurkish
  • піта-крикунUkrainian
  • Đuôi cụt ồn àoVietnamese
  • 噪八色鳥Chinese
  • 噪八色鸫Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the noisy 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 noisy pitta?

An adult noisy pitta weighs 88.9 g – 99.3 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does the noisy pitta live?

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

Is the noisy pitta endangered?

The noisy pitta is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the noisy pitta?

The noisy pitta (Pitta versicolor) 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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APA

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BibTeX
@misc{noisy_pitta_2026,
  title = {Noisy pitta (Pitta versicolor)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/noisy-pitta},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}