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Is a pitohui dangerous

Updated: 10/9/2023
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not really.but it's feathers can cause numbness and tingling

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How does a Hooded Pitohui sound?

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Which is the most poisonous bird?

There are three birds that are considered poisonous. The Hooded Pitohui, aka, The Garbage Bird, it is "Pitohui dichrous", the Ifrita, it is "Ifrita kowaldi", and The Little Shrike-thrush, it is "Colluricincla megarhyncha". There is a toxin that is stored in their feathers and skin, probably from something they eat, it's suggested a beetle. I don't know if one is more poisonous than the other or not. For more details see sites listed below.


Are there poisonous birds?

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.


What is the comparative and superlative to the word dangerous?

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How dangerous is this?

What is dangerous? Asking questions? That isn't dangerous.


How can the pitohui and the strawberry poison-dart frog produce the same poison?

Last pointless answered that it was because "God made it that way", it is really because poison dart frogs get their poison from the bugs they eat.There for, they eat the same bugs. God might have "made them live with each other", but hardly that he "made" them that way.