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Are there poisonous birds

Updated: 11/15/2022
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There is a orange and black bird that lives in New Guinea called called the Hooded Pitohui, whose skin and feathers contains a powerful neurotoxin that causes numbness and tingling when handled. Interestingly enough it gets its poison from the insects it eats.

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