honeycreepers in English
noun
1
a tropical American tanager with a long curved bill, feeding on nectar and insects.
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.
2
a Hawaiian songbird of variable appearance and with a specialized bill, several kinds of which are now endangered.
To date, mitochondrial rate calibrations have been generated (in chronological order) for geese, Hawaiian honeycreepers , cranes, partridges, procellariiform seabirds, and ratites.
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1. The Bananaquit is sometimes referred to as a honeycreeper (see honeycreeper sense 1), and while it has been historically placed in the family Coerebidae, it is now sometimes placed with the other honeycreepers in the tanager family, Thraupidae.