Akohekohe

Akohekohe

Akohekohe: Medium honeycreeper, mainly black with white or gray crested forehead. Orange eyering extends to orange-red nape. Breast and throat feathers are gray-tipped, orange-tipped feathers scattered over rest of the body. Wings and tail have white edges. Black legs, bill. Direct, strong flight.

● Song: "tjook tjook chouroup", "hur-hur-hur-gluk-gluk-gluk", "whee-o, whee-o", "tchew"

● Foraging & Feeding: Akohekohe: Eats the flowers of the 'ohi'a trees that are high in the canopy. When the flowers are limited it will eat insects, fruit and nectar from other plants and even forage in the understory. They forage by hopping or running from tree to tree instead of flying.

● Breeding & nesting: Akohekohe: They nest exclusively in the 'ohi'a tree. The female builds a cup-shaped nest of twigs and lays one or two gray eggs with brown spots and streaks. Incubation is carried out by the female for 17 days. Both parents feed the chicks, who fledge at around 21 days.

● Similar species: Akohekohe: Not likely to be confused with any other species.

Flight Pattern