honey creeper

noun

1. any small tropical American songbird of the genus Dacnis and related genera, closely related to the tanagers and buntings, having a slender downward-curving bill and feeding on nectar

2. any bird of the family Drepanididae of Hawaii

Example Sentences

Gnarled koa trees twist up from its tropical slopes, where the endangered palila bird, a tiny yellow honey creeper, crushes rock-hard mamane seeds with its beak.

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