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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 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.
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]
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]
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Pitohui Lesson, 1831 – pitohuis: Northern variable pitohui (Pitohui kirhocephalus) Raja Ampat pitohui (Pitohui cerviniventris) Southern variable pitohui (Pitohui uropygialis) Hooded pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) Oriolus Linnaeus, 1766 – orioles: Brown oriole (Oriolus szalayi) Dusky-brown oriole (Oriolus phaeochromus) Grey-collared oriole ...
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