List Of Adaptive Radiated Hawaiian Honeycreepers By Form
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an honeycreepers by form; these are the
Hawaiian honeycreeper Hawaiian honeycreepers are a group of small, passerine birds endemic to Hawaii. They are closely related to the rosefinches in the genus ''Carpodacus'', but many species have evolved features unlike those present in any other finch. Their great ...
s, especially the
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forms, lost through late-European colonization. (These are adaptive radiative equivalents.)


Finch-like

? species '' # '' P. kona''
( Kona grosbeak) , , , rowspan="99" , , -


Hummingbird-like

? species


Parrot-like

? species


Unique: longhorn beetle larva hunter-(parrot-like bill)

1 species-?


Warbler-like

? species


Woodpecker-like

? species


Surviving forms: non-Prehistoric, not extinct


Finch-like

? species


(Finch-like) (secondary: hummingbird-like)--(

Hawaiian lobelioid The Hawaiian lobelioids are a group of flowering plants in the bellflower family, Campanulaceae, subfamily Lobelioideae, all of which are endemic to the Hawaiian Islands. This is the largest plant radiation in the Hawaiian Islands, and indeed t ...
-specialist)

1 species
''True hummingbird-like species are all
extinct Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...
.''


Parrot-like

4 species


Warbler-like

? species
(the only warbler-like?, (the other ''amakihi'' 's radiated-?))


Woodpecker-like

1 species


Alphabetical listing

* 'Akiapola'au * 'Apapane *
common amakihi Common may refer to: Places * Common, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland * Boston Common, a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts * Cambridge Common, common land area in Cambridge, Massachusetts * Clapham Common, originally com ...
* Kona grosbeak * Hawai'i 'akialoa * 'I'iwi * Laysan finch *
Maui Nui finch The Maui Nui finch (''Telespiza ypsilon'') is an extinct member of the genus ''Telespiza'' in the family Fringillidae. It was endemic to the Hawaiian islands of Molokai and Maui. It is only known from fossil remains and likely became extinct b ...
–(no photo) *
Maui parrotbill The Maui parrotbill or kiwikiu (''Pseudonestor xanthophrys'') is a species of Hawaiian honeycreeper endemic to the island of Maui in Hawaii. It can only be found in of mesic and wet forests at on the windward slopes of Haleakalā. This spec ...
* Nihoa finch * 'O'u


Surviving forms in list

* 'Akiapola'au * 'Apapane *
common amakihi Common may refer to: Places * Common, a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland * Boston Common, a central public park in Boston, Massachusetts * Cambridge Common, common land area in Cambridge, Massachusetts * Clapham Common, originally com ...
* 'I'iwi * Laysan finch *
Maui parrotbill The Maui parrotbill or kiwikiu (''Pseudonestor xanthophrys'') is a species of Hawaiian honeycreeper endemic to the island of Maui in Hawaii. It can only be found in of mesic and wet forests at on the windward slopes of Haleakalā. This spec ...
* Nihoa finch


References

*Wilson, Eisner, Briggs, Dickerson, Metzenberg, O'Brien, Susman, & boggs. ''Life on Earth'',
Edward O. Wilson Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, entomologist and writer. According to David Attenborough, Wilson was the world's leading expert in his specialty of myrmecology, the study of ...
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Thomas Eisner Thomas Eisner (June 25, 1929 – March 25, 2011) was a German-American entomologist and ecologist, known as the "father of chemical ecology." He was a Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology at Cornell University, and Director of the ...
, Winslow R. Briggs, Richard E. Dickerson, Robert L. Metzenberg, Richard D. O'Brien, Millard Susman, William E. boggs, c 1973, Sinauer Associates, Inc., Publisher, Stamford, Connecticut. 1033 pp, 19 p Index & Back Page (hardcover, )


See also

*{{C, Hawaiian honeycreepers *
Adaptive radiation In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is a process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms, particularly when a change in the environment makes new resources available, alters biotic int ...
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Honeycreeper The typical honeycreepers form a genus ''Cyanerpes'' of small birds in the tanager family Thraupidae. They are found in the tropical New World from Mexico south to Brazil. They occur in the forest canopy, and, as the name implies, they are specia ...
s .Radiated Hawaiian honeycreepers Hawaiian honeycreepers, radiated
Hawaiian honeycreepers Hawaiian may refer to: * Native Hawaiians, the current term for the indigenous people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants * Hawaii state residents, regardless of ancestry (only used outside of Hawaii) * Hawaiian language Historic uses ...
Hawaiian honeycreepers Hawaiian may refer to: * Native Hawaiians, the current term for the indigenous people of the Hawaiian Islands or their descendants * Hawaii state residents, regardless of ancestry (only used outside of Hawaii) * Hawaiian language Historic uses ...
Hawaiian honeycreepers, radiated Natural history of Hawaii Speciation