Summer male: black, including soft parts, with bright red shoulder patch or “epaulet,” bordered by yellow in most subspecies. Winter male: as summer male, but shows warm brown feather tips ...

Adult male: the red crown is bordered by black, with a small red patch below black nape bar; the chin and throat are red, with the red color partially invading the black malar stripe that outlines ...

Bryan Fry, University of Queensland professor of toxicology, says the effects of red-bellied black snake venom can vary dramatically between humans and animals. "In this case it could be something ...