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Toast the pittas and open up the long side with a knife.

My wife was pregnant with the second child at the time," Pittas said.

Mr. Pittas has a future and evidently already a present.

As with other pittas, it is a secretive and shy bird.

A 2006 study confirmed that these were the closest relatives of the pittas.

We spent the journey to the beach singing, and had pizza or pittas for lunch!

The movements of pittas are poorly known and notoriously difficult to study.

Pittas are driven, disciplined and passionate - they have combination skin.

Based on the study it proposed splitting the pittas into three genera.

Although this difference may seem small, it may have affected the participants' blood sugar levels, Pittas said.

The main threat to pittas is habitat loss in the form of rapid deforestation.

For example, the eggs of noisy pittas are smaller closer to the tropics.

The Pittas are satisfied with their decision not to purchase the optional built-in table or benches.

The pittas build a rudimentary nest that is a dome with a side entrance.

George Pittas, owner of the fruit store next door, spoke of a community that was united in grief.

We birded slowly back down the trail to the beginning with eyes peeled on the trails, but no pittas were in evidence.

The pittas are generally birds of tropical forests, semi-forests and scrub.

Pittas are diurnal, requiring light in order to find their often cryptic prey.

Pittas' parents have since returned to Greece, and he is the only member of the family still in the United States.

His recipes for pittas and wraps look easier.

Since it was installed, the gazebo has proved its versatility with the Pittas' children, who range in age from 4 to 17.

Pittas have an intellectual and precise disposition due to a very alert, focussed mind.

Atypically for forest floor species, the plumage of pittas is often bright and colourful.

The greatest diversity of pittas are found in South-east Asia.

Pittas are among the few Old World suboscine birds.

Pitta is a genus of birds in the Pittidae, or pitta family.

The blue pitta (Hydrornis cyaneus) is a species of bird in the Pittidae family.

Monograph of the Pittidae.

Pittidae: pittas The former three are usually placed into a distinct superfamily from the pittas, Eurylaimoidea.

The rainbow pitta (Pitta iris) is a small passerine bird in the family Pittidae, endemic to northern Australia.

Pittas are a family, Pittidae, of passerine birds mainly found in tropical Asia and Australasia, although a couple of species live in Africa.

The banded pittas, Hydrornis (guajana) spp., are a group of birds in the Pittidae family that were formerly lumped as a single species, the banded pitta.

The mangrove pitta (Pitta megarhyncha) is a species of passerine bird in the Pittidae family native to Southeast Asia and South Asia.

The graceful pitta (Pitta venusta), also known as the black-crowned pitta, is a species of bird in the Pittidae family which occurs in Sumatra, Indonesia.

A field-study of Indochinese pittas in Viet Nam, with special reference to Elliot's pitta Pitta elliotii (Aves: Pittidae).

In his 1863 work A Monograph of the Pittidae Daniel Elliot split the pittas into two genera, Pitta for the species with comparatively long tails and Brachyurus for the shorter tailed species.