Figure 1. Study subject, study area, and diet composition.
(A) Fairy pitta parent with a beak-load of earthworms, some of which are sundered (i.e., cut into shorter pieces). Photo by JP. (B) Geographic distribution of fairy pitta observations during the breeding season (based on (The Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 2020) accessed on 1 June 2020), and the location of our study site (red circle no. 4 with yellow fill) relative to other sites (nos. 1, 2, 3) where data on nestling diet and parental care are available in the literature (pink circles, white fill): (1) Linnei, Taiwan (Lin, Yao & Lee, 2007), (2) Noongang, China (Jiang et al., 2017), (3) Jeju, Korea (Kim et al., 2012). (C) Diet composition at our study site based on a total of 647 prey items (details in Table S2). Map credit: 2021©Google SK telecom.