Hooded Pitohui

I picked a species Hooded Pitohui, Pitohui dichrous. They are from the vertebrate line. This is a song bird from New Guinea and has generally Halloween colors (black and orange). This species is interesting because it is poisonous; it has a neurotoxin called homobatrachotoxin that causes numbness and tingling when something touches the species. It is probably poisonous because of the Choresine beetles it eats which are also poisonous.


This is interesting because I didn't even know that birds could be poisonous/venomous. What an unique bird...