Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.
Population
Estimated population is 2,500 - 9,999 (2010) and decreasing.
Status EN
Habitat destruction and degradation from feral ungulates, particularly pigs, also facilitating the spread of alien plants and disease-carrying mosquitoes, are the main threats.
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.
Voice
Song is a rattling, descending trill. Call an upslurred 'sweet'. Juveniles following adults utter a chatter of irregularly spaced notes 'whi-whit, whi-whi-whit' etc.
Hawaii Creeper (Loxops mana) [XC127668]
by Dan Lane from Station 11-21, Nauhi Experiment Station, Honohina Tract, Hakalau Forest NWR, Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States (call)
Hawaii Creeper (Loxops mana) [XC124793]
by Brooks Rownd from Kipuka Ahiu, Powerline Road, Station 26-1, Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States (begging call, call)
Subspecies
Long combined with the Paroreomyza species and Oreomystis bairdi as a single species, under the name Loxops maculatus or Paroreomyza maculata. Has been placed in Oreomystis and regarded as sister-species to Akikiki (Oreomystis bairdi), but recent DNA studies indicate that it is basal in a clade with Loxops and Chlorodrepanis.
No subspecies.
Similar Species
Hawaii Amakihi (Chlorodrepanis virens) female and juvenile similar, but throat never white, darker bill and narrower, more curved, dark lores.
References
See References.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet