"The resurgence of the Gurney?s Pitta (pitta gurneyi) bird species continues. Widely considered extinct until the discovery of a population in Thailand in 1986, new research has shown that there could be as many as 35,000 Gurney?s Pitta territories in Myanmar?s southern Tanintharyi Division. One territory generally represents a pair of birds, as Gurney?s Pitta is thought to be monogamous. A paper published online last week in Bird Conservation International estimates there are somewhere between 9300 and 35,000 Gurney?s Pitta territories in Myanmar, although the figure probably lies around a mid-point of 20,000 territories, said a spokesperson from BirdLife International, an association of more than 100 conservation organisations..."