Honeyeaters
Order: Passeriformes. Family: Meliphagidae
Honeyeaters prefer to flit quickly from perch to perch in the outer foliage, stretching up or sideways or hanging upside down at need. They have a highly developed brush-tipped tongue, longer in some species than others, frayed and fringed with bristles which soak up liquids readily. The tongue is flicked rapidly and repeatedly into a flower, the upper mandible then compressing any liquid out when the bill is closed. All species of honeyeaters below were endemic to Hawaii, but are now extinct. The Kauai Oo was the last species to survive, last seen in 1987.
- Kaua‘i ‘Ō‘ō, Moho braccatus (E)
- O‘ahu ‘Ō‘ō, Moho apicalus (E)
- Bishop's ʻŌʻō, Moho bishopi (E)
- Hawaiʻi ʻŌʻō, Moho nobilis (E)
- Kioea, Chaetoptila angustipluma (E)
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