Hawaiian Honeycreepers (Drepanididae)
Hawaii Amakihi (Chlorodrepanis virens) - HBW 15, p. 656
French: Amakihi familier
German: Hawaii-Amakihikleidervogel
Spanish: Amakihi de Hawai
Other common names: Common Amakihi
Taxonomy: Certhia virens J. F. Gmelin, 1788, Kona, Hawaii.
Genus for many years subsumed into Loxops, and later merged into Viridonia or an enlarged Hemignathus. Previously considered conspecific with C. stejnegeri and C. flava; on basis of suite of potential isolating mechanisms, bolstered by DNA evidence, all now treated as separate species. Proposed races kalaana (Molokai) and chloridoides (Lanai) not separable from wilsoni. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- wilsoni ( Rothschild, 1893) - Molokai and Maui, in Hawaiian Is.
- virens ( J. F. Gmelin, 1788) - Hawaii I, in E Hawaiian Is.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A bird looking around on a branch Locality Upper Maulua Unit, Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands (ssp wilsoni)
Curt Kessler 30 September 2007 4 years ago 16 sec 4 -
A bird in several bushes Locality Mauna Loa, Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands (ssp virens)
Curt Kessler 31 December 2005 6 years ago 25 sec 3.1
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Bird photographed in low growing dense shrub near the camp sites at Hosmer Grove
Locality Hosmer Grove, Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaiian Islands
Tom Moxley 21 November 2011 24 weeks ago 4.2 -
bird feeding on nectar
Locality Maui, Hawaiian Islands (ssp wilsoni)
Aleix Comas 27 July 2009 2 years ago 3.3
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