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Alternative Name: Kauai Creeper

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Oreomystis bairdi

[edit] Identification

13 cm

• Greyish-brown upperparts
• White underparts
• Conical, slightly downcurved bill,,
• Pink bill and feet
  

Juvenile has bold white eye-ring

[edit] Distribution

Island of Kauai, Hawaii.

[edit] Taxonomy

Monotypic^[1]

This taxon is considered a subspecies of Paroreomyza maculata by some authors^[2]

[edit] Habitat

Wet montane forests.

[edit] Behaviour

[edit] Diet

The diet includes insects, larvae, and spiders. It possesses a tongue that is specially designed for extracting insects from crevices in bark.

[edit] Breeding

It builds a simple open-cup nest between March and May in ohi'a trees.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. BirdLife International

• List of references

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