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Encyclopedia > Hooded Pitohui
Hooded Pitohui
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Pachycephalidae
Genus: Pitohui
Species: dichrous
Binomial name
Pitohui dichrous
(Bonaparte, 1850)

The Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) is a jay-sized endemic New Guinean songbird with black and orange coloration.


The Hooded Pitohui, and two close relatives (the Variable Pitohui and the Brown Pitohui), are the first documented poisonous birds.


External links

  • The Intoxicating Birds of New Guinea by John Tidwell (http://natzoo.si.edu/Publications/ZooGoer/2001/2/intoxnewguineabirds.cfm)
  • The Pitohui and the Frog by Robert B. Hole, Jr. (http://www.interaktv.com/articles/pitohui.htm)

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Pitohui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (291 words)
Pitohui is a genus of birds endemic to New Guinea, belonging to the family Pachycephalidae.
The skin and feathers of some pitohuis, especially the Variable and Hooded Pitohuis, contain powerful neurotoxic alkaloids of the batrachotoxin group (also secreted by the Colombian poison dart frogs, genus Phyllobates).
The Hooded Pitohui is brightly coloured, with a brick red belly and a jet fl head.
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