The Hawaiian i’iwi (pronounced ee-EE-vee) is a hummingbird-niched species of Hawaiian honeycreeper. It’s listed as vulnerable due to it’s decreasing numbers, though they currently number in the 300,000’s. The adult i’iwi is mostly scarlet with black wings and tail. It’s long, scarlet colored, curved bill was initially used for drinking nectar of the Hawaiian lobelioids which have curved corollas. When the lobelioid population declined dramatically, they shifted their diet to the nectar of ohi’a lehua (oh-HEE-ah leh-HOO-ah) blossoms, a type of bottlebrush plant. They will also occasionally dine on small arthropods, such as centipedes. The main threat to these birds is loss of habitat and disease, particularly avian malaria, spread by mosquitoes.