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The nene is the official state bird of Hawaii.. This list of birds of Hawaii is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of Hawaii as determined by Robert L. and Peter Pyle of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, and modified by subsequent taxonomic changes.
The palila (Loxioides bailleui) is a critically endangered finch-billed species of Hawaiian honeycreeper.It has a golden-yellow head and breast, with a light belly, gray back, and greenish wings and tail.
House finch (All main islands) Atlantic canary; Yellow-fronted canary (O'ahu, Hawaii) Laysan finch^ (Pearl and Hermes Reef*) House sparrow (All main islands) Red-cheeked cordon-bleu (Hawaii) Lavender waxbill (Hawaii, O'ahu) Orange-cheeked waxbill (Maui, O'ahu) Black-rumped waxbill (Hawaii) Common waxbill (All main islands) Red avadavat (Kauai ...
Beak and tongue shapes of Hawaiian honeycreepers and the Mohoidae. Hawaiian honeycreepers are a group of small birds endemic to Hawaiʻi.They are members of the finch family Fringillidae, closely related to the rosefinches (Carpodacus), but many species have evolved features unlike those present in any other finch.
The Oʻahu ʻalauahio (Paroreomyza maculata), also known as the Oʻahu creeper, is a small finch-like Hawaiian honeycreeper that is endemic to the Hawaiian island of Oahu. It is Critically endangered .
The family Fringillidae are the "true" finches. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 239 species in the family, distributed among three subfamilies and 50 genera. Confusingly, only 79 of the species include "finch" in their common names, and several other families include species called finches.
Loxops coccineus: The Hawaiʻi ʻakepa survives only in two or three locations, all on the island of Hawaii: one population in Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge (on the Hamakua Coast of Mauna Kea), one in the upper forest areas of Kau (in the southern part of the island), and one on the northern slope of Hualālai (perhaps extirpated).
The saffron finch was formally described in 1766 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the 12th edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Fringilla flaveola. [2] The specific epithet is a diminutive of the Latin flavus meaning "golden" or "yellow". [3] The type locality is Suriname. [4]