In the summer of 1989, Jack Dumbacher was a fresh-faced ornithologist-in-training on his maiden expedition to the lush rainforests of Papua New Guinea. One sticky afternoon, he noticed an unusual bird ...

Birds are often admired for colour and song, not poison. Yet the hooded pitohui of New Guinea tells another story. Its black-and-orange feathers carry toxins that make it one of the rarest and most ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists have confirmed the world’s first poisonous bird. The hooded pitohui was always thought to be poisonous by the people of Papua, New Guinea, but it was not confirmed until ...

There stood Jack Dumbacher, innocently trying to trap a gorgeous bird of paradise in the mist net he'd set up for his research in a New Guinea forest, when the net entangled a flying stranger, all ...

There are many poisonous insects and reptiles all over the world. But have you ever heard of a bird that can be poisonous? The Hooded Pitohui (pronounced pit-o-hooey) is a songbird found in the rain ...

The title of the world's most beautiful bird is often given to the Resplendent Quetzal, native to Central America. Learn why ...

A bird with toxic feathers may have taken on the colors of a poisonous neighbor, according to a new genetic analysis. Plenty of butterflies have evolved copycat warning colors, but cases of bird ...

Aside from Alfred Hitchcock`s demonic vision, most people view birds as warm, flittery, benign. We watch birds, we cage them for companionship, and occasionally we eat them. Birds are basically ...