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Definition of honeycreeper in English: honeycreepernoun ˈhʌnɪkriːpəˈhənēˌkrēpər 1A tropical American tanager (songbird) with a long curved bill, feeding on nectar and insects. Genera Cyanerpes and Chlorophanes, family Emberizidae (subfamily Thraupinae): five species Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- 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.
2A Hawaiian songbird of variable appearance and with a specialized bill, several kinds of which are now endangered. Family Drepanididae (or Fringillidae): several genera and species, often with Hawaiian names such as the iiwi and ou Example sentencesExamples - Thirteen other species of a type of bird known as the Hawaiian honeycreeper had also become instinct.
- It happened on the Hawaiian islands, when two small birds called honeycreepers ultimately produced more than 50 distinct species that swarmed the forests.
- Other Hawaiian birds, such as the 20 or so diverse and colorful honeycreepers, face equally grim prospects if the disease hits, Burgett predicts.
- These bright red rainforest honeycreepers have long, curved bills that are ideally suited for sipping nectar from Hawaiian lobelias.
- To date, mitochondrial rate calibrations have been generated (in chronological order) for geese, Hawaiian honeycreepers, cranes, partridges, procellariiform seabirds, and ratites.
- Parental care of juveniles lasts less than a month for the other honeycreepers and has generally ended by the time flocking begins.
Definition of honeycreeper in US English: honeycreepernounˈhənēˌkrēpər 1A tropical American tanager with a long curved bill, feeding on nectar and insects. Genera Cyanerpes and Chlorophanes, family Emberizidae (subfamily Thraupinae): five species Example sentencesExamples - 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.
2A Hawaiian songbird of variable appearance and with a specialized bill, several kinds of which are now endangered. Family Drepanididae (or Fringillidae): several genera and species, often with Hawaiian names such as the iiwi and ou Example sentencesExamples - It happened on the Hawaiian islands, when two small birds called honeycreepers ultimately produced more than 50 distinct species that swarmed the forests.
- Other Hawaiian birds, such as the 20 or so diverse and colorful honeycreepers, face equally grim prospects if the disease hits, Burgett predicts.
- Parental care of juveniles lasts less than a month for the other honeycreepers and has generally ended by the time flocking begins.
- These bright red rainforest honeycreepers have long, curved bills that are ideally suited for sipping nectar from Hawaiian lobelias.
- To date, mitochondrial rate calibrations have been generated (in chronological order) for geese, Hawaiian honeycreepers, cranes, partridges, procellariiform seabirds, and ratites.
- Thirteen other species of a type of bird known as the Hawaiian honeycreeper had also become instinct.
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