page_title: Hawaiian honeycreeper
hierarchical_section_title: Hawaiian honeycreeper
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Schnäbel der Kleidervögel (Drepadinidae) Español: Picos de las aves (Drepadinidae) 35. Drepanis funerea (category) 36. Drepanis pacifica (category) 37. Vestiaria coccinea (category) 38. Moho nobilis (category) † (now in family Mohoidae) 39. Moho apicalis (category) † (now in family Mohoidae) 40. Moho bishopi (category) † (now in family Mohoidae) 41. Moho braccatus (category) † (now in family Mohoidae) 42. Chaetoptila angustipluma (category) now in family Mohoidae) 43. Palmeria dolei (category) 44. Pseudonestor xanthophrys (category) 46. Psittirostra psittacea (category) 48. Loxioides bailleui (category) 49. Telespiza cantans (category) 50. Telespiza flavissima Syn. Telespiza cantans (category) 51. Telespiza flaviceps Syn. Rhodacanthis flaviceps (category) 52. Telespiza palmeri Syn. Rhodacanthis palmeri (category) 53. Chloridops kona (category) 54. &amp; 54a. Tongue of Pseudonestor xanthophrys (category) 55. &amp; 55a. Tongue of Ciridops anna (category) 56. &amp; 56a. Tongue of Drepanis pacifica (category) 57. &amp; 58. Sternum of Drepanis pacifica (category)
context_page_description: Hawaiian honeycreepers are small, passerine birds endemic to Hawaiʻi. They are closely related to the rosefinches in the genus Carpodacus. Their great morphological diversity is the result of adaptive radiation in an insular environment.
  Before the introduction of molecular phylogenetic techniques, the relationship of the Hawaiian honeycreepers to other bird species was controversial. The honeycreepers were sometimes categorized as a family Drepanididae, other authorities considered them a subfamily, Drepanidinae, of Fringillidae, the finch family. The entire group was also called "Drepanidini" in treatments where buntings and American sparrows are included in the finch family; this term is preferred for just one subgroup of the birds today. Most recently, the entire group has been subsumed into the finch subfamily Carduelinae.
context_section_description: Hawaiian honeycreepers are small, passerine birds endemic to Hawaiʻi. They are closely related to the rosefinches in the genus Carpodacus. Their great morphological diversity is the result of adaptive radiation in an insular environment.
  Before the introduction of molecular phylogenetic techniques, the relationship of the Hawaiian honeycreepers to other bird species was controversial. The honeycreepers were sometimes categorized as a family Drepanididae, other authorities considered them a subfamily, Drepanidinae, of Fringillidae, the finch family.  The entire group was also called "Drepanidini" in treatments where buntings and American sparrows (Passerellidae) are included in the finch family; this term is preferred for just one subgroup of the birds today.  Most recently, the entire group has been subsumed into the finch subfamily Carduelinae.
caption: Beak and tongue shapes of Hawaiian honeycreepers and the Mohoidae
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