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A poisonous bird you say? 
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http://www.avianweb.com/hoodedpitohui.html

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The Hooded Pitohui, Pitohui dichrous is common and widespread throughout New Guinea.

This species, together with its close relatives, the Variable Pitohui and the Brown Pitohui, are the first documented poisonous birds. A neurotoxin called homobatrachotoxin found in the birds' skin and feathers, causes numbness and tingling in those touching the bird.





Call me when there is a venomous bird.

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And you can call me, when a bird is found who can operate the trigger of a gatling gun.

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apparently named for the sound made by the person attempting to eat it when they realize their tongue has gone numb?

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A gnar bird, you say?


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Post Re: A posionous bird you say?
chris_d wrote:
And you can call me, when a bird is found who can operate the trigger of a gatling gun.



A venomous gatling gun.

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newholland wrote:
apparently named for the sound made by the person attempting to eat it when they realize their tongue has gone numb?


Points for this one. :lol:

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Devtron wrote:
chris_d wrote:
And you can call me, when a bird is found who can operate the trigger of a gatling gun.



A venomous gatling gun.


Each bullet, in possession of tiny adorable fangs?

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Devtron wrote:
chris_d wrote:
And you can call me, when a bird is found who can operate the trigger of a gatling gun.



A venomous gatling gun.


Yes. This device must be invented.

I have this mental image of a 19th-century style illustration, possibly akin to a patent drawing, of a large flightless bird operating a Gatling gun.

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Post Re: A posionous bird you say?
chris_d wrote:
Devtron wrote:
chris_d wrote:
And you can call me, when a bird is found who can operate the trigger of a gatling gun.



A venomous gatling gun.


Each bullet, in possession of tiny adorable fangs?



Like these guys:

Image


But venomous and not cowboys.

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Yes, exactly not like those guys at all.

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