Indian Pitta - Habitat record shot Local Name – Nawarang @vips_claws Indian Pitta is a very colourful bird with a small stubby-tailed bird. The beak is orange or brownish-orange with black tip. The bright cerulean blue tail has a black edge. Throat and neck is white.The breast and belly are orange-yellow or brownish-yellow. The lower belly and vent are scarlet red. Legs and feet are pink and the nails are brown.Indian Pitta has dark brown eyes, long, strong legs, short tail and stout bill, with a buff coloured crown stripe, black coronal stripes.The upper parts are green, with a blue tail, the underparts buff, with bright red on the lower belly and vent. Distribution : Practically all India- excepting the dry North-West portion, Assam and Ceylon. Indian pitta resident in North and Central India, but a winter visitor to South India and Ceylon. Indian pitta is mostly seen on the floor of forests or under dense undergrowth, foraging on insects in leaf litter. Indian pittas breed mainly in the Himalayan foothills from the Margalla hills northern Pakistan in the west to at least Nepal and possibly up to Sikkim in the east. They also breed in the hills of central India and in the Western Ghats south to Karnataka. They migrate to all parts of peninsular India and Sri Lanka in winter. Nest is a large globular structure about a foot in diameter, composed of fine twigs, grass, roots, dry leaves, etc. with a circular entrance hole at the side. Eggs 3 to 6 four to six, glossy china-white, with spots, specks and fine hair lines of dull or dark purple ©VIPs @birds_captures @best_birds_of_ig @birds_captures @bird @indianbirdsib @bestbirdshots @your_best_birds @birdsmagazine @birds.nature @indianbirdsib #birdsofinstagram #birds #instagram #instabirds #instabirders #mptourism #mpforest #bestbirds #bestshot #amazing #forest #madhyapradesh #sonyalpha #sonylens #allmight_birds #feathers_perfection #birdsofindia #bird #bestbirdshots #wetlands #amazing_longexpo #birds #landscapephotography #colours #natures #Cic_best #migration #amazing_longexpo #clicks #colours #natures @bestbirdshots #indianpitta #habitatshots (at VIPs_Clicks) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAVeORGAD97/?igshid=x2ro2d4btnlm
