What is an oahu creepers habitat?

food where they live

What is an oahu creepers habitat?
They live in tropical rainforests between elevations of 100-2300 feet.
Reply:Creeper, Oahu

Paroreomyza maculata

Family: Drepanidinae

Group: Birds



Current Status: Endangered

Endangered



The Oahu creeper was first listed on October 13, 1970. It is currently designated as Endangered in the Entire Range. Within the area covered by this listing, this species is known to occur in: Hawaii. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pacific Region (Region 1) is the lead region for this entity

Endangered





NAME - CREEPER, O'AHU



OTHER COMMON NAMES - CREEPER, O'AHU; CREEPER, HAWAIIAN; 'ALAUWAHIO and O'AHU; 'AKIKIKI; KAKAWAHIE; 'ALAUWAHIO; 'ALAUAHIO



ELEMENT CODE -



CATEGORY - Birds



PHYLUM AND SUBPHYLUM - CHORDATA,



CLASS AND SUBCLASS - AVES,



ORDER AND SUBORDER - PASSERIFORMES,



FAMILY AND SUBFAMILY - FRINGILLIDAE,



GENUS AND SUBGENUS - PAROREOMYZA,



SPECIES AND SSP - MACULATA,



SCIENTIFIC NAME - PAROREOMYZA MACULATA



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TAXONOMY REFERENCES -



COMMENTS ON TAXONOMY -

O'ahu Creeper



Paroreomyza maculata (Cabanis, 1851)



KINGDOM: Animal GROUP: Bird



PHYLUM: Chordata CLASS: Aves

ORDER: Passeriformes FAMILY: Fringillidae



Male O'ahu creepers (Paroreomyza maculata) are small birds, olive

green above and golden yellow below. Females and immatures are gray

above, yellowish white below with prominent white wing bars (15).

O'ahu creepers have dark lores with a prominent pale superciliary

stripe (15). The O'ahu creeper's bill is straight, in contrast to the

decurved bill of the similar O'ahu 'amakihi.

"Creepers" in Hawai'i were first allocated among several genera

(16,17), but soon a consensus developed that these birds were closely

related among themselves (11,18). The O'ahu creeper was originally

named Himatione maculata by Cabanis, 1851, Mus. Heineanum, 1, p. 100

(footnote), (O'ahu) (02). Early 20th century authors classified the

forms as five species of the genus Oreomyza. Amadon (19) lumped all

five creepers as subspecies of one species, Loxops maculata. Munro

(20) placed all five as separate species within the genus Paroreomyza.

In a systematic study of the family, Pratt (03) recognized five creeper species in two genera (Oreomystis and Paroreomyza).



This

classification has been adopted by the AOU and other authors (05).

Pratt's classification identifies species of Oreomystis on Kaua'i

(O. bairdi) and Hawai'i (O. mana). He recognized three species of the

genus Paroreomyza on the central Hawaiian Islands (P. maculata -

O'ahu; P. flammea - Moloka'i; and P. montana - Lana'i and Mau'i). In

its original listing of the O'ahu creeper, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Serivce listed it at the subspecific level as Oreomystis maculata

maculata. It is now listed at the specific level as Paroreomyza

maculata.

One subspecies of the O'ahu creeper is known as the Hawaiian

creeper (on the island of O'ahu). This species is also known by the

Hawaiian name 'alauwahio (02), O'ahu 'alauwahio (02), 'akikiki,

kakawahie, and 'alauahio.

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