Whiskered pitta, the Glossary

Table of Contents

1. 17 relations: Bird, Birdwatching, Cheek, CITES, EBird, Endemism, Friedrich Brüggemann, Habitat, Habitat destruction, Luzon, Montane ecosystems, Mount Isarog, Mount Pulag, Near-threatened species, Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park, Philippines, Pitta.

2. Birds of Luzon
3. Erythropitta
4. Taxa named by Friedrich Brüggemann

Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Birdwatching

Birdwatching, or birding, is the observing of birds, either as a recreational activity or as a form of citizen science.

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Cheek

The cheeks (buccae) constitute the area of the face below the eyes and between the nose and the left or right ear.

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CITES

CITES (shorter name for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals from the threats of international trade.

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EBird

eBird is an online database of bird observations providing scientists, researchers and amateur naturalists with real-time data about bird distribution and abundance.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Friedrich Brüggemann

Friedrich Brüggemann (1850, Bremen – 1878, London) was a German zoologist and entomologist Friedrich Brüggemann was an Assistant in the zoological Institute in Jena Later he was engaged in work on the corals in the collection of the British Museum.

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Habitat

In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species.

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Habitat destruction

Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.

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Luzon

Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

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Montane ecosystems

Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains.

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Mount Isarog

Mount Isarog is an active stratovolcano located in the province of Camarines Sur, Philippines, on the island of Luzon.

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Mount Pulag

Mount Pulag (Bundok Pulag; Bantay Pulag) is Luzon's highest peak at above sea level, third-highest mountain in the Philippines, and the 26th-highest peak of an island on Earth.

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Near-threatened species

A near-threatened species is a species which has been categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as that may be vulnerable to endangerment in the near future, but it does not currently qualify for the threatened status.

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Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park

The Northern Sierra Madre Natural Park is the largest protected area of the Philippines covering the northern range of the Sierra Madre mountains of eastern Luzon.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Pitta

Pittas are a family, Pittidae, of passerine birds found in Asia, Australasia and Africa.

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See also

Birds of Luzon

• Ashy thrush
• Benguet bush warbler
• Blackish cuckooshrike
• Blue-breasted blue flycatcher
• Blue-headed fantail
• Brown-banded rail
• Bukidnon woodcock
• Calabarzon babbler
• Chestnut-faced babbler
• Cordillera ground warbler
• Cream-breasted fruit dove
• Flame-breasted fruit dove
• Flaming sunbird
• Furtive flycatcher
• Golden-crowned babbler
• Grand rhabdornis
• Green racket-tail
• Green-backed whistler
• Green-faced parrotfinch
• Grey-backed tailorbird
• Grey-throated martin
• Indigo-banded kingfisher
• Isabela oriole
• Long-tailed bush warbler
• Lowland white-eye
• Luzon bleeding-heart
• Luzon boobook
• Luzon buttonquail
• Luzon flameback
• Luzon hornbill
• Luzon scops owl
• Luzon striped babbler
• Luzon water redstart
• Montane racket-tail
• Northern sooty woodpecker
• Robsonius
• Rough-crested malkoha
• Rufous coucal
• Rufous-breasted blue flycatcher
• Scale-feathered malkoha
• Spotted buttonquail
• Trilling tailorbird
• Whiskered pitta
• White-browed jungle flycatcher
• White-lored oriole
• Yellow-crowned flowerpecker

Erythropitta

• Bismarck pitta
• Black-crowned pitta
• Blue-banded pitta
• Erythropitta
• Garnet pitta
• Graceful pitta
• Louisiade pitta
• North Moluccan pitta
• Papuan pitta
• Philippine pitta
• South Moluccan pitta
• Sula pitta
• Sulawesi pitta
• Whiskered pitta

Taxa named by Friedrich Brüggemann

• Acropora monticulosa
• Gonioctena fornicata
• Turbinaria bifrons
• Whiskered pitta

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskered_pitta

Also known as Erythropitta kochi, Pitta kochi.