By: Michael Fox
Noisy Pittas are normally found in rainforest habitat like Lamington National Park or Tamborine National Parks where our New Zealand visitor captured the video above.
Marshal Kloske rang today really excited. A brightly coloured plump bird he had never seen before was pecking around the ground under his bird feeder. Initially he thought it was some sort of parrot then it turned its head … no curved beak. Marshal had a Noisy Pitta Pitta versicolour in the Firefly Gully wildlife corridor. First glow in the dark mushrooms now my favourite bird.
We had another sighting of this cute little bird in March 2013. It is a hopeful sign that small forest birds are returning to our mountain gullies.
Let us know if you see a Pitta – megoutlook@gmail.com
Mount Gravatt Environment Group 
August 16, 2014 at 7:10 am
Isn’t this great news!! Great to see these small birds coming back. Today’s rain welcome too. Ian W
August 16, 2014 at 8:13 am
It is outstanding news. We have also had sighting of small birds in Fox Gully recently so, along with the ongoing Koala sightings, it is looking positive. And the rain will certainly help. Dry periods are useful to get on top of the weeds but I do love the rain.
August 18, 2014 at 5:18 pm
I saw a noisy pitta last Monday and today during my walk alongside Boambee Creek near Coffs Harbour. I was able to take some photo’s, very happy with that. So they are also “still” here 🙂
August 18, 2014 at 5:37 pm
Excellent news … thanks for letting us know Suzanne. We have now set up a wildlife camera so we hope to capture some video in Firefly Gully.