Louisiade Pitta (IMAGE)

Cornell University

Louisiade Pitta

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The Louisiade pitta is one of the "lost" species found in 2022 and 2023 on Rossel Island, Papua New Guinea. There had been no definite record of this bird since 1898.

 

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Photo by Wang Bin | Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library.

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