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- From: br105@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey A. Del Col)
- Newsgroups: rec.birds
- Subject: Toxic Bird?
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 02:50:18 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Reply-To: br105@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeffrey A. Del Col)
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- In the well known ornithology journal THE WEEKLY READER (My son's in
- the third grade) I found an article about a toxic bird, the Hooded
- Pitohui. This is a New Guinea sp. found to have toxic feathers and skin.
- Can anyone provide more information about this? The article mentions
- a John Dumbacher as the scientist who discovered the bird's toxicity
- when he licked some cuts on his hands after handling a pitohui. Has he
- published a report of this anywhere?
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- Does anyone know of any other species of bird with such properties?
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- J. Del Col
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