The Blue Pitta lives in forests of South and Southeast Asia and searches for food on the forest floor. Males are vivid blue, while females are mainly brown.
Males are blue across the back and underparts, while females have gray-brown wings and a white-barred belly. Both sexes show a reddish crown and dark eyebrow stripe.
It lives in moist forests from lowlands to mountains and searches for food in dense cover on the forest floor, including along ravines and streams.
It digs through soil on the forest floor with its bill, searching for insects, larvae, worms, and snails.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.