A Poisonous Passerine?

By Mike • December 2, 2008 • No comments yet

Darren Naish thoughtully reminds us (he first wrote about this in 2006) of the insidious Ifrita coronata, a pachycephalid passerine endemic to New Guinea. Cool!

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