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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 first research done on toxic birds was published in 1992 by Dumbacher et al., [4] which found traces of the neurotoxin homobatrachotoxin, a steroid alkaloid with the ability to polarize Na+ channels, in the feathers and body tissue of many species of New Guinea passerine birds of the genus Pitohui and Ifrita. [5]
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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.
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 ...
Some birds are poisonous to eat or touch (e.g. hooded pitohui) though no bird species is known to be venomous. [3] There are only a few species of venomous amphibians; certain salamandrid salamanders can extrude sharp venom-tipped ribs. [4] [5]
Zhenniao (Chinese: 鴆鳥; pinyin: zhènniǎo; lit. 'poison-feather bird'), often simply zhen, is a name given in many Chinese myths, annals, and poetry to poisonous birds that are said to have existed in what is now southern China.