The best defense bird in the world

1. Hooded Pitohui was found at New Guinea, their defense against the predator is
simple but their poison is very amazing.  Pitohui take some kind of beetle that contain a potent neurotoxin and contains an alkaloid known as batrachotoxin (poison were also found in the skin of the poison dart frogs of South America). By eating beetles, birds being poisoned, their toxins present in their fur and skin. 

They are really known by the locals as "trash birds", because their toxicity makes them impossible to eat unless they removed the skin and fur. Touching Hooded Pitohuis can cause numbness and tingling, burning skin and sneezing (as reported by the scientists in charge of the creature), while consuming them may be far more dangerous. To warn the nature of its toxicity, this bird has a bright orange color and black color that allows candidates to recognize predators. And it is believed that the Hooded Pitohuis can rub toxin on eggs and their children to protect them from predators.

2. African White Masked Owl

 
This little owl little known to the public after recently when a Japanese TV show featuring an incredible defense method. If approached by enemy small bird will sizzle to make themselves look bigger and vicious, this is a defensive method common among owls and apparently enough to scare the enemy. However, when dealing with an enemy that is larger and more powerful, these owls are not trying to intimidate him in that manner, but the smoothing feathers and squinting so that his eyes almost invisible to predators. By keeping these birds move to do something to resemble a tree stump or branch plants, such Potoo, escape from larger predators.

3. Potoo

 
Often found in Mexico, Central and South America, this bird is a strange nocturnal predators also known as "Ghost Bird", because their exceptional camouflage. Potoo eat insects, small flying animals such as bats and small birds. In the afternoon potoo perched in a tree and a truly moving and imitating dead tree stumps or as a broken stump. Its fur resembles bark and eyelids have a gap that allowed him to see even when blindfolded. Potoo will usually still move even when approached by another animal (or human) and they only fly when they feel that they have been known to disguise. Camouflage is so good, however, they are almost never found, and they have almost no predators. It also makes it very difficult for us Potoo observe. At night Potoo can only be found by eyes reflect light, shining like the eyes of cats and owls.

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