Southern variable pitohui

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Southern variable pitohui
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Oriolidae
Genus: Pitohui
Species:
P. uropygialis
Binomial name
Pitohui uropygialis
(Gray, GR, 1862)
Synonyms
  • Rectes uropygialis

The southern variable pitohui (Pitohui uropygialis) is a species of pitohui in the family Oriolidae. It is found on New Guinea and neighbouring islands. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. It is also one of the few known poisonous birds, it carries the toxic compound homobatrachotoxins in its feathers and skin.

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Taxonomy and systematics

This species was split from the northern variable pitohui in 2013. [2]

Subspecies

Five subspecies are recognized: [3]

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References

  1. BirdLife International (2016). "Pitohui uropygialis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2016: e.T103691602A104067842. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T103691602A104067842.en .
  2. "Species 3.1-3.5 « IOC World Bird List". www.worldbirdnames.org. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
  3. "IOC World Bird List 7.1". IOC World Bird List Datasets. doi: 10.14344/ioc.ml.7.1 .