Question

A large number of honeycreeper species on the Hawaiian islands is an example of ?

Answer 1

Honeycreeper species feed on nectar.

Their large number on the Hawaiian islands is an example of adaptive radiation.

ADAPTIVE RADIATION

This is the process in which organisms diversify rapidly from an ancestral species into a multitude of new forms particularly when a change in environment makes new resources available.

For instance the evolution of beaks of a bird to suite the available feeds.

Answer 2

The honeycreepers on the Hawaiian Islands are an unlimited instance of adaptive radiation.

A big number of honeycreeper species are on the Hawaiian Islands. It is supposed that the unique predecessor of these birds reached on the islands some five million years before.

One collection of birds prevalent to these islands is the Hawaiian honeycreepers.