While the Crested Honeycreeper once lived on 485 square miles of terrain, spread out over two Hawaiian islands (Maui and Moloka’i), it now lives on only 5% of its former Maui territory, with no … Visit the post for more. Our mission is to develop and implement techniques that recover Maui's endangered birds and to restore their habitats through research, development, and application of conservation techniques. Endemic to the main Hawaiian islands in native forests above 4,000 ft. Common to abundant on Hawai’i, Maui and Kaua’i, extremely rare or extinct on Moloka’i, Oʻahu, and Lana’i. This species has seen the most drastic population decline of any Hawaiian honeycreeper in recent decades.
All honeycreepers are small, and many have thin, downcurved bills; the tongue is brushy and may be double-tubed. Honeycreeper, any of four species of tropical Western Hemisphere birds of the family Thraupidae, order Passeriformes.

Many honeycreepers feed on nectar, and some are called sugarbirds. The Hawaiian Honeycreeper Family Tree A new study unravels the relationships among a group of spectacular songbirds that diversified as the Hawaiian Islands emerged from the Pacific. Likely their common ancestors were lone accidental arrivals to these isolated islands. Hawaiʻi's renowned honeycreeper family of birds, all closely related, have evolved into strikingly different species. Recent evidence from osteology, behaviour, plumage, breeding biology, and genetics has led to a consensus that the Hawaiian Hawaiian honeycreeper, any member of a group of related birds, many of them nectar-eating, that evolved in the forests of the Hawaiian Islands and are found only there.