A male Banded Pitta looking out from behind a rock on a stream bed in Si Phang Nga National Park in Southern Thailand

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The Banded Pitta is a member of a group of birds in the Pittidae family that were formerly lumped as a single species and is one of the most beautiful species in Thailand. It is confined to lowland forests up to about 600 metres in the southern peninsula. This image is of the male and was taken on a partly dried up stream bed in Si Phang Nga National Park in Phang Nga Province in Southern Thailand.

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Size: 3412px × 2559px
Location: Si Phang Nga National Park, Phang Nga Province, Southern Thailand
Photo credit: © Robert Kennett / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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