Talk:Hawaiian honeycreeper

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Title capitalization

Names of species capitalized on Wikipedia; warrants move of this page to new page titled Hawaiian Honeycreeper instead of Hawaiian honeycreeper (lowercase h) --James Easton 00:00, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hawaiian honeycreepers are a group of birds, not a species, so no caps - as in, for example woodpeckers, the group, but Great Spotted Woodpecker, a species. jimfbleak 05:03, 13 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Smell

Cannot remember the reference, but there is something interesting said about the smell of these birds that even persists in old skins. Shyamal (talk) 04:58, 30 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Family status

I think this article should go back to the family status, as even HBW 15 (which will be released in 2010) will use the family drepanididae (see http://ibc.lynxeds.com/family/hawaiian-honeycreepers-drepanididae) --Melly42 (talk) 15:30, 13 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Explanation of taxonomic status

This article does not explain the status of the honeycreepers at all. Why is it that they have had their status changed recently? And why is it in dispute? I can tell it is not just an issue of how big each taxonomic rank should be. I remember reading somewhere that all the honeycreepers may be descended from the Common Rosefinch, but I haven't found areference for this yet. If I do I will add it to her, but can anybody try improving this and removing the confusing parts of the text. Innotata 23:53, 19 October 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Innotata (talk • contribs)

They seem to form a natural group, so I wonder why they aren't just kept in the tribe Drepaninini, as proposed already in 1982. FunkMonk (talk) 06:05, 11 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Rosefinches

This article says the Hawaiian honecreepers' closest relatives are the Asian rosefinches. —JerryFriedman (Talk) 00:12, 28 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]