Schneiderpitta

Schneiderpitta
Systematics
Order :	Passerines (Passeriformes)
Subordination :	Screeching Birds (Tyranni)
Partial order :	Screaming birds of the old world (Eurylaimides)
Family :	Pittas (Pittidae)
Genre :	Hydrornis
Type :	Schneiderpitta
Scientific name
	Hydrornis schneideri
	( Hartert , 1909)

The Schneiderpitta ( Hydrornis schneideri ) is a passerine bird of the genus Hydrornis within the family of Pittas (Pittidae). It occurs in Southeast Asia. No subspecies are distinguished.

The IUCN classifies the stock situation of the Schneiderpitta as endangered ( vulnerable ).

description

anatomy

The tailor pitta reaches a body length of 21 to 23 centimeters and a wing length of 11.8 to 13.6 centimeters. The body shape is typical of species from the Pittas family. The legs are high and strong. The stump tail looks like it has been cut off. The beak is of medium length and slightly curved downwards. The head is large in proportion to the body, but the neck is so short that the tailor's pitta has the squat shape typical of Pittas. The wings are short and rounded. Unlike many other pittas, they do not protrude beyond the control springs . There is a slight gender dimorphism . The beak is dark brown with a lighter tip in both sexes. The iris is hazel brown or reddish brown. The feet and legs are light brown.

male

The forehead of the males is gray-brown and turns into a brown-orange on the vertex, which extends to the neck. All feathers have a black feather base and, in many individuals, are also narrow and finely lined. A wide black stripe runs from the beak over the eye to the neck. The sides of the head are pale reddish brown with some narrow black-lined feathers. A black neck ring separates the head plumage from the rest of the plumage. It is most noticeable on the coat and on the chest. The coat, shoulder feathers, back, rump, upper tail-coverts and tail plumage are blue. The wing feathers are brown, while the hand wings are olive brown. The wing covers are dark cinnamon-colored, with individual blue feathers in between. The chin and throat are whitish, the rest of the underside of the body is light orange-brown.

female

The females are similar but more dull in color. The vertex is a little paler than that of the males and looks scaled due to the black feather fringes. The black neck ring is less noticeable than in the males and may be completely absent in some individuals.

Possible confusion

There is a distant resemblance to the giant pitta in that both males have blue feathers on the upper side and gray-brown on the underside. The tailor's pitta, however, has a red-brown cap and is significantly smaller than the giant pitta. The females are much more difficult to tell apart. The female tailor pittas often lack the dark neck band.

Distribution area and habitat

The tailor's pitta occurs exclusively in Sumatra . The habitat are mountain rainforests up to an altitude of 2400 meters. It also colonizes naturally created clearings if they already have a dense growth of young trees.

Way of life

The tailor's pitta is a shy bird that has so far rarely been observed over a long period of time. Basically it is a ground-dwelling bird and is mostly observed in pairs. Mated birds rarely look for food more than two meters away. Little information is available about the reproductive biology of this species. Young birds fed by a male were observed in June.

Etymology and history of research

Ernst Hartert described the tailor pitta under the name Pitta schneideri . He named the mountain Sibayak as the place where the type specimen was collected . It was Gustav Schneider (1867-1958) who sent it to the Natural History Museum at Tring . In 1816 Louis Pierre Vieillot introduced the genus Pitta for the Bengal pitta ( Pitta brachyura ( Linnaeus , 1766)) for science. Schneiderpitta was later added to the genus. The name Telugu means beautiful ball in the Dravidian language . The species name is dedicated to the man who made the type specimen available.

literature

Johannes Erritzøe and Helga Erritzoe: Pittas of the World - A Monograph on the Pitta Family. The Lutterworth Press, Cambridge 1998, ISBN 0-7188-2961-1 .

Web links

Videos, photos and sound recordings of Schneider's Pitta ( Hydrornis schneideri ) in the Internet Bird Collection

Single receipts

↑ Hydrornis schneideri in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017.2. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
↑ Erritzoe & Erritzoe: Pittas of the World. P. 47.
↑ ^a ^b Ernst Hartert: Dr. E. Hartert exhibited examples of the following new species and subspecies of birds, which he described as follows . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 25 , no. 3 , 1909, pp. 9-10 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).
^ Louis Pierre Vieillot: Analyze d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire . Deterville, De L'Imprimerie DE A. Belin, Paris 1816, p. 46 ( books.google.de ).
↑ James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 , pp. 308 .

[iucn-1] Hydrornis schneideri in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017.2. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2017.

[Erritzoe47-2] Erritzoe & Erritzoe: Pittas of the World. P. 47.

[hartert-3] Ernst Hartert: Dr. E. Hartert exhibited examples of the following new species and subspecies of birds, which he described as follows . In: Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club . tape 25 , no. 3 , 1909, pp. 9-10 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).

[vieillot-4] Louis Pierre Vieillot: Analyze d'une nouvelle ornithologie élémentaire . Deterville, De L'Imprimerie DE A. Belin, Paris 1816, p. 46 ( books.google.de ).

[jobling-5] James A. Jobling: Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names . Christopher Helm, London 2010, ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4 , pp. 308 .