NOUN
- small bright-colored tropical American songbird with a curved bill for sucking nectar
- small to medium-sized finches of the Hawaiian islands
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- Thirteen other species of a type of bird known as the Hawaiian honeycreeper had also become instinct.
- These bright red rainforest honeycreepers have long, curved bills that are ideally suited for sipping nectar from Hawaiian lobelias.
- The tanager family of North and South America boosts some of the most beautiful of all the creatures; included in the family are honeycreepers or sugarbirds, dacnis, and euphonias.
- The male Yellow-legged or Purple Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes caeruleus) is a beautiful bird that keeps his color year-round.
- The Red-legged Honeycreeper (Cyanerpes cyanueus), also known as the Yellow-winged Sugarbird, is found from Southern Mexico, through Latin America to Northern South America.
- Other Hawaiian birds, such as the 20 or so diverse and colorful honeycreepers, face equally grim prospects if the disease hits, Burgett predicts.
- To date, mitochondrial rate calibrations have been generated (in chronological order) for geese, Hawaiian honeycreepers, cranes, partridges, procellariiform seabirds, and ratites.
- It happened on the Hawaiian islands, when two small birds called honeycreepers ultimately produced more than 50 distinct species that swarmed the forests.
- Birds easily encountered on the plateau near the falls include the Guianan cock-of-the-rock, as well as honeycreepers, and tanagers.
- Parental care of juveniles lasts less than a month for the other honeycreepers and has generally ended by the time flocking begins.