Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The plumage of the hooded pitohui is dichromatic, black and reddish brown. The hooded pitohui is 22 to 23 cm (8.7–9.1 in) long and weighs 65–76 g (2.3–2.7 oz). The adult has a black upperwing, head, chin, throat and upper breast and a black tail. The rest of the plumage is a reddish brown.
Hooded pitohui. The pitohuis / p ɪ t oʊ ˈ w iː / [1] are bird species endemic to New Guinea.The onomatopoeic name is thought to be derived from that used by New Guineans from nearby Dorey (), but it is also used as the name of a genus Pitohui which was established by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1831.
The hooded pitohui. The neurotoxin homobatrachotoxin on the birds' skin and feathers causes numbness and tingling on contact. The following is a list of poisonous animals, which are animals that passively deliver toxins (called poison) to their victims upon contact such as through inhalation, absorption through the skin, or after being ingested.
Toxic insects, primarily beetles, in the diets of these toxic birds are the most common sources for the bird’s toxicity. In the New Guinea bird species of Pitohui and Ifrita, the beetles of genus Choresine, natively known as nanisani, are pivotal food sources, and toxin sources, of these birds. [6]
Pitohui is a genus of birds endemic to New Guinea.The birds formerly lumped together as pitohuis were found by a 2008 study that examined their evolutionary history on the basis of the genetic sequences to have included birds that were quite unrelated to each other.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Several species of bird endemic to New Guinea have the toxin in their skin and on their feathers: the blue-capped ifrit (Ifrita kowaldi), little shrikethrush (aka rufous shrike-thrush, Colluricincla megarhyncha), and the following pitohui species: the hooded pitohui (Pitohui dichrous, the most toxic of the birds), crested pitohui (Ornorectes ...
The family Oriolidae comprises the piopios, figbirds, pitohuis and the Old World orioles. [1] The piopios were added in 2011, having been formerly placed in the family Turnagridae. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Several other genera have been proposed to split up the genus Oriolus .