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Title capitalization

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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

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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

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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

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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 (talkcontribs)

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

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