Hooded pitohui
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The hooded pitohui is a species of bird in the genus Pitohui found in New Guinea. It was long thought to be a whistler but is now known to be in the Old World oriole family. Within the oriole family,
Pitohui dichrous
The plumage of the hooded pitohui is dichromatic, black and reddish brown.
The hooded pitohui uses the same family of batrachotoxin compounds as the golden poison frog of Colombia.
Brown tree snakes are bird predators that have been shown to be vulnerable to the poisons found in hooded pitohui.
Blue-capped ifrit
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The blue-capped ifrit is a species of small passerine bird in the monotypic family Ifritidae, native to the montane rainforests of New Guinea. These birds are insectivorous and are notable for their d
Hooded pitohui
…sequester them from their diet. The extent of the toxicity varies both in the pitohuis across their range and also across the range of the unrelated blue-capped ifrit, another New Guinean bird found with toxic skin and feathers. Both of these facts suggest that the toxins are obtained from the diet. The presence of…
Ifrita kowaldi 1899
Ifrita kowaldi Jay Pruett 336202978
Highlands in New Guinea
Piopio