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If you’re thinking of some enormous flying creature with teeth or talonscarrying deadly venom, you’ll need to reign in your imagination. No known bird actively injects or produces venom – but the poisonous birds on this list do contain deadly toxins within their skin, feathers and other tissues.

Where do they get these toxins from? They don’t produce them themselves but rather engage in a process called heteroaglandular poison – poison produced as a result of consuming a certain toxin which is then re-used for the animal’s own defences.

Read more at https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/most-poisonous-birds?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email