Interviews: Searching for the Poisonous Pitohui
Beehler is hunting the rare bird in one of the most remote and wild places on the planet -- the Arfak mountain range in the Papua Province of Indonesia.
Beehler is hunting the rare bird in one of the most remote and wild places on the planet -- the Arfak mountain range in the Papua Province of Indonesia.
Conservationist Bruce Beehler is pushing through a wild and mostly undeveloped area of Indonesia in search of a mysterious and poisonous bird native to Papua New Guinea, the pitohui.
So far, his only lead and guide is a local shaman, who uses poison from the bird in his rituals.
From the Arfak mountain range in the Papua Province of Indonesia -- an area popularly known as the Bird's Head Peninsula -- Beehler talks about his quest with Alex Chadwick.
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