Bornean Banded Pitta (Hydrornis schwaneri) - BirdLife species factsheet

Bornean Banded Pitta Hydrornis schwaneri

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Taxonomy

Taxonomic note

Hydrornis schwaneri (del Hoyo and Collar 2016) was previously listed as Pitta schwaneri, following a split of P. guajana into P. guajana, P. irena and P. schwaneri, by the BirdLife Taxonomic Working Group on the basis of many strong plumage differences, some morphometric differences in guajana, and modest vocal differences, as noted by Rheindt & Eaton (2010).

Taxonomic source(s)
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
Rheindt, F. E.; Eaton, J. A. 2010. Biological species limits in the Banded Pitta Pita guajana. Forktail: 86-91.

IUCN Red List criteria met and history

Red List criteria met

Critically Endangered	Endangered	Vulnerable
-	-	-

Red List history

Year	Category	Criteria
2024	Least Concern
2016	Least Concern
2012	Least Concern
2011	Least Concern
2008	Not Recognised
2004	Not Recognised
2000	Not Recognised
1994	Not Recognised
1988	Not Recognised

Species attributes

Migratory status	not a migrant	Forest dependency	high
Land-mass type		Average mass	-

Range

	Estimate	Data quality
Extent of Occurrence (breeding/resident)	939,000 km²	good
Severely fragmented?	no	-

Population

	Estimate	Data quality	Derivation	Year of estimate
Population size	unknown	-	-	-
Population trend	decreasing	poor	suspected	1998-2011
Generation length	3.85 years	-	-	-

Population justification: The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is described as uncommon to locally common (del Hoyo et al. 2003). This species is considered to have a high dependency on forest habitat, and tree cover is estimated to have declined by 14.8% within its mapped range over the past 10 years (Global Forest Watch 2022, using Hansen et al. [2013] data and methods disclosed therein). It is therefore tentatively suspected that this rate of cover loss may have led to a decline of between 1-19% in the species' population size over the same time frame, with a best estimate of reduction being 11-14%.

Trend justification: .

Country/territory distribution

Country/Territory	Presence	Origin	Resident
Brunei	extant	native	yes
Indonesia	extant	native	yes
Malaysia	extant	native	yes

Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA)

Country/Territory	IBA Name
Malaysia	Danum Valley Conservation Area
Malaysia	Kabili-Sepilok
Malaysia	Kinabatangan floodplain
Malaysia	Maliau Basin Conservation Area
Malaysia	Tabin Wildlife Reserve
Malaysia	Trus Madi Range

Habitats & altitude

Habitat (level 1)	Habitat (level 2)	Importance	Occurrence
Artificial/Terrestrial	Plantations	suitable	resident
Artificial/Terrestrial	Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest	suitable	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland	suitable	resident
Forest	Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane	major	resident
Altitude	50 - 1680 m	Occasional altitudinal limits

Recommended citation
BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Bornean Banded Pitta Hydrornis schwaneri. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/factsheet/bornean-banded-pitta-hydrornis-schwaneri on 25/11/2024.
Recommended citation for factsheets for more than one species: BirdLife International (2024) IUCN Red List for birds. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/species/search on 25/11/2024.