pitohui

The Rusty Pitohui is usually seen in small parties, mixed with other gregarious species.

Scientists discovered in 1989 that the feathers and other organs of the pitohui were found to contain batrachotoxin.

Two of them, however, closely resemble the Hooded Pitohui.

The Hooded Pitohui is brightly coloured, with a brick red belly and a jet-black head.

During a study of the toxicity of the genus Pitohui, two specimens of this species have been tested.

The Variable Pitohui, as its name implies, exists in many different forms, and 20 subspecies with different plumage patterns have been named.

Another odd avifauna from New Guinea is the poisonous birds, notably the Hooded Pitohui.

The pitohuis (genus Pitohui) are birds endemic to New Guinea, belonging to the family Pachycephalidae.

The Hooded Pitohui gets it's poison from part of its diet, the Choresine beetles of the Melyridae family.

Also in 1990, it was discovered that some bird species in New Guinea, such as the Hooded Pitohui, contain the toxin on their skin and feathers.

The Black Pitohui (Pitohui nigrescens) is a species of bird in the Pachycephalidae family.

This species and its two close relatives, the Variable Pitohui and the Brown Pitohui, were the first known poisonous birds.

The Blue-capped Ifrit, like the Hooded Pitohui, sequesters batrachotoxin in its skin and feathers, which causes numbness and tingling to those who handle the bird.

The Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) is a songbird of New Guinea with black and orange plumage.

Conversely, modern scientific studies have discovered very toxic birds such as the Pitohui, which are neither birds of prey nor water birds, and therefore the biblical regulations allow them to be eaten.

The Rusty Pitohui is distributed and endemic to lowland and hill forests of New Guinea, Aru Island and West Papuan islands.

Widespread and common throughout its habitat range, the Rusty Pitohui is evaluated as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Birds may duet with each other, or mimic other species such as the Rusty Pitohui, Little Shrike-thrush, Spangled Drongo, or Helmeted Friarbird.

The Rusty Pitohui (Pitohui ferrugineus) is a medium-sized, approximately 28 cm long, rusty brown songbird with a strong black bill, pale iris and yellowish-buff below.

This enigmatic bird is one of only three bird genera known to have poisonous members, the others being the genus Pitohui, also from New Guinea, and the Little Shrikethrush (Colluricincla).

But in 1992, an article was published in Science reporting that the Hooded Pitohui of New Guinea has poisonous feathers, and since then a few other species of similarly poisonous birds have been discovered.