#pitohui

[best-bird-tournament]

Orioloidea superfamily

Which is the best bird?

Long-tailed minivet

Wattled ploughbill

Crested bellbird

Eastern shriketit

Hooded pitohui

Eastern crested berrypecker

Blue-headed vireo

Eastern whipbird

Australian golden whistler

Green shrike-vireo

Black pitohui

Voting ended onDec 28, 2025

[critter-creature-or-beast]

This is a...

critter

creature

beast

Voting ended onApr 3

Submitted for classification by anonymous.

"maybe controversial: idc how small it is, if it can kill me it is a beast. coral snakes, cone snails, dart frogs, etc. etc.

anyway has anyone submitted the pitohui for classification? just touching them will make your hands go numb :)"

By Светлана Царахова, CC0

[l0nely-edgel0rd-g0d]

[s-lycopersicum]

[claypigeonpottery]

a pitohui spicy chicken nugget mug

[scrunkore]

it's a shame "Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online" is attached to the SAO name because I just know many lesbians on the internet would be all over this Very Normal woman

[herpsandbirds]

Hello friend! I love your blog!

Can you tell me about poisonous birds? I trust you way more than Google, especially with its new unreliable AI...

POISONOUS BIRBS:

Hey there, so I know about Pitohuis (there are 8 species), Blue-capped Ifrit, Regent Whistler, Rufous-naped Bellbird, Arafura Shrikethrush, Rufous Shrikethrush sequester Batrachotoxins in their feathers and skin (as well as in some internal organs), obtained from their diet (most likely beetles in the genus Choresine). All are endemic to New Guinea.

Red Warblers, Spur-winged Geese, European Common Quail, Bronzewing Pigeons, and Ruffed Grouse also sequester toxins form various insects, seeds, and berries (depending on the species), and can be toxic.

Hoopoes have bacteria in their uropygial glands that produce toxins.

Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous), family Oriolidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to New Guinea

photograph by Knud Jønsson

Blue-capped Ifrit (Ifrita kowaldi), family Ifritidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to New Guinea

photograph by Frédéric PELSY

Rufous Shrikethrush (Colluricincla rufogaster), family Pachycephalidae, order Passeriformes, emdemic to New Guinea

photograph by JJ Harrison 

Regent Whistler (Pachycephala schlegelii), family Pachycephalidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to New Guinea

photograph by Bradley Hacker

Rufous-naped Bellbird (Aleadryas rufinucha), family Oreocidae, order Passeriformes, endemic to New Guinea

photograph by Jerry_Oldenettel

[kaban-bang]

I know they already kissed last season but... YURI??