When researcher and bird expert Jack Dumbacher was mist-netting in New Guinea, his team accidentally caught a lot of hooded pitohui while looking for the Raggiana bird-of-paradise. No problem, except ...

Flying through the jungles of Papau New Guinea, two brightly colored bird species carried a secret. More accurate, the birds carried a poison — a toxin emanating from their feathers and seeping from ...

New Guinea - Researchers recently discovered two new species of poisonous birds during an expedition into the jungles of New Guinea. According to the University of Copenhagen, Knud Jønsson and his ...

Locals in Papua New Guinea called the birds spicy. When University of Copenhagen evolutionary ecologist Kasun Bodawatta handled feathers from the Regent Whistler and the Rufous-naped Bellbird, his ...

The poisonous birds inhabit one of Earth’s most pristine rainforests, a place as exotic as no other in the world. Hearing the words poisonous and bird coupled will be an eye-opener for most. But ...

Birds are usually linked with freedom, beauty, and calm. They sit on trees, sing in the morning, and feel safe to be around. But scientific findings have quietly changed that long-held idea. In a ...

One of the newly-discovered poisonous bird species, the rufous-naped bellbird or Aleadryas rufinucha. Photo from the University of Copenhagen Flying through the jungles of Papau New Guinea, two ...