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Songbird Remix's Product Preview Thread
- Thread starter Ken Gilliland
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All 3 Freebie are out too...
Ok, thanks, Mr. Gilliland, I'll be waiting for Songbird Remix: Philippines
I already have a number of birds from the Philippines; they're just not all in one set...
- Masked Booby (SBRM Australia v3/SBRM Hawaii/SBRM Seabirds v3)
- Comb-crested Jacana (SBRM Australia v3/SBRM Jacanas)
- Coppersmith Barbet (SBRM Barbets)
- Blue-tailed Bee-eater (SBRM Bee-eaters)
- Common Kestrel (SBRM Birds of Prey v1)
- Peregrine Falcon (SBRM Birds of Prey v1)
- Chinese Sparrowhawk (SBRM Birds of Prey v2)
- Philippine Eagle (SBRM Birds of Prey v4)
- Crested Serpent-eagle (SBRM Birds of Prey v4)
- White-bellied Sea Eagle (SBRM Birds of Prey v5)
- Changeable Hawk-eagle (SBRM Birds of Prey v6)
- Rufous-bellied Eagle (SBRM Birds of Prey v6)
- Red Crossbill (SBRM Cool and Unusual Birds v1)
- Luzon Bleeding-heart (SBRM Cool and Unusual Birds v3)
- Pink-necked Green-pigeon (SBRM Cool and Unusual Birds v3)
- Chestnut-breasted Malkoha (SBRM Cuckoos)
- Common Emerald Dove (SBRM Gamebirds v3)
- Spotted Dove (SBRM Gamebirds v3)
- Zebra Dove (SBRM Gamebirds v3)
- Superb Fruit-dove (SBRM Gamebirds v3)
- Great Frigatebird (SBRM Hawaii)
- Common Kingfisher (SBRM Kingfishers)
- Black-backed Dwarf Kingfisher (SBRM Kingfishers)
- Common Hill Myna (SBRM Mynas)
- White-lored Oriole (SBRM Orioles of the Old World)
- Isabela Oriole (SBRM Orioles of the Old World)
- Black-naped Oriole (SBRM Orioles of the Old World)
- Oriental Bay Owl (SBRM Owls of the World v2)
- Elegant Tit (SBRM Paridae of the World)
- Red and Blue Lory (SBRM Parrots of the World v1)
- Red-vented Cockatoo (SBRM Parrot of the World v4)
- Spot-billed Pelican (SBRM Pelicans of the World)
- Small Buttonquail (SBRM Petshop)
- Sooty Tern (SBRM Seabirds v3)
- Spoon-billed Sandpiper (SBRM Shorebirds v3)
- Chinese Egret (SBRM Shorebirds v4)
- Oriental Stork (SBRM Shorebirds v4)
- Asian Wooly-necked Stork (SBRM Shorebirds v5)
- Little Spiderhunter (SBRM Spiderhunters)
- Orange-tufted Spiderhunter (SBRM Spiderhunters)
- Pale Spiderhunter (SBRM Spiderhunters)
- Naked-faced Spiderhunter (SBRM Spiderhunters)
- Scarlet-collared Flowerpecker (SBRM Threatened, Endangered, Extinct v3)
- Little Grebe (SBRM Waterfowl v4)
The thing about birds is... they are the most common wildlife experience almost everybody has. You look through a window, walk outside and chances are you're going to see a bird. They are pretty much a given on almost any exterior render I do
A big thank-you to all you that participated in my Audubon sale.
I thought I'd take a short break after the sale (and those 5 new products) but evidently not... I already have my mid-to-late May release done... it's a bookend to my Orioles set entitled "Orioles of the Old World".
Here's the Hooded Pitohui, one of the only poisonous birds in the world and found in New Guinea.
In 1990, scientists preparing the skins of the Hooded Pitohui for museum collections experienced numbness and burning when handling them. It was reported in 1992 that this species and some other pitohuis contained a neurotoxin called homobatrachotoxin, a derivative of batrachotoxin, in their tissues. This led to them being more broadly known outside New Guinea, considered by some to be the first documented poisonous birds, other than some reports of coturnism caused by consuming quail (although toxicity in quails is unusual), and the first bird discovered with toxins in the skin. The same toxin had previously been found only in Central and South American poison dart frogs from the genera Dendrobates, Oophaga and Phyllobates (family Dendrobatidae). The batrachotoxin family of compounds are among the most toxic compounds by weight in nature, being 250 times more toxic than strychnine. Later research found that the hooded pitohui had other batrachotoxins in its skin, including batrachotoxinin-A cis-crotonate, batrachotoxinin-A and batrachotoxinin-A 3′-hydroxypentanoate.
Poisonous pitohuis, including the hooded pitohui, are not thought to create the toxic compound themselves but instead sequester them from their diet. The presence of the toxins in the internal organs as well as the skins and feathers rule out the possibility that the toxins are applied topically from an unknown source by the birds. One possible source has been identified in the forests of New Guinea: beetles of the genus Choresine (family Melyridae), which contain the toxin and have been found in the stomachs of Hooded Pitohuis.
I thought I'd take a short break after the sale (and those 5 new products) but evidently not... I already have my mid-to-late May release done... it's a bookend to my Orioles set entitled "Orioles of the Old World".
Here's the Hooded Pitohui, one of the only poisonous birds in the world and found in New Guinea.
In 1990, scientists preparing the skins of the Hooded Pitohui for museum collections experienced numbness and burning when handling them. It was reported in 1992 that this species and some other pitohuis contained a neurotoxin called homobatrachotoxin, a derivative of batrachotoxin, in their tissues. This led to them being more broadly known outside New Guinea, considered by some to be the first documented poisonous birds, other than some reports of coturnism caused by consuming quail (although toxicity in quails is unusual), and the first bird discovered with toxins in the skin. The same toxin had previously been found only in Central and South American poison dart frogs from the genera Dendrobates, Oophaga and Phyllobates (family Dendrobatidae). The batrachotoxin family of compounds are among the most toxic compounds by weight in nature, being 250 times more toxic than strychnine. Later research found that the hooded pitohui had other batrachotoxins in its skin, including batrachotoxinin-A cis-crotonate, batrachotoxinin-A and batrachotoxinin-A 3′-hydroxypentanoate.
Poisonous pitohuis, including the hooded pitohui, are not thought to create the toxic compound themselves but instead sequester them from their diet. The presence of the toxins in the internal organs as well as the skins and feathers rule out the possibility that the toxins are applied topically from an unknown source by the birds. One possible source has been identified in the forests of New Guinea: beetles of the genus Choresine (family Melyridae), which contain the toxin and have been found in the stomachs of Hooded Pitohuis.