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Blue-capped Ifrit № 188

Blue-capped Ifrit

Ifrita kowaldi

Named after the ifrit, a demon of Arabic folklore, a century before anyone found its feathers were poisonous. They carry the batrachotoxins of poison-dart frogs, thought to come from beetles it eats.

Photo · Jay Pruett · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.

Call · Phil Gregory · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · source · xeno-canto. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.

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