This Noisy Pitta was found in a small remnant of rainforest in Wollongong city in Mangerton Park. Bush regenerators have never heard it and there is no other remnant of bushland anywhere near, but is a Noisy Pitta. Jennifer Neil Treecreeper Indigenous Land Management
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Chris Chafer has this at http://users.speedlink.com.au/~cchafer/index.html
“Noisy Pitta Pitta versicolor Rare, summer migrant: Rainforest, occasionally moist sclerophyll forest. Two specimens shot near Wollongong in 1877 and 1883. No further records until a lone bird was observed in a small area of littoral rainforest and lantana thicket at Bass Point, from 2 to 13 October 1984. Subsequently, one calling at Barren Grounds, November 1988 and a juvenile from the bottom of Jamberoo Pass, January 1990; a juvenile captured at Kiama, 1993, later released at Minamurra Rainforest; one calling at Barren Grounds November 1998”
Pitta do turn up a long way from apparently suitable habitat. There was two reported from inner Sydney last year, one in Balmain & another in Forest Lodge just across Parramatta Rd from Sydney Uni. Also one in Berrima last year (inland&south from Wollongong).
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