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Bragging Rights to Giant Pitta

By Ian Hall Rounding a bend in the trail I spotted something large, blue and pitta-like bouncing away from me. Boing! boing! boing! and it was gone. I knew immediately what it was even though I had never seen one before. Damn! Damn! Damn! I cursed. There was no question that that was a Giant Pitta but in the arcane world of bird watching this could only be described as an un-tickable sighting. I needed to get another look. I tiptoed forward, pausing I scanned the forest floor and half imagined that I saw something blue....