 The primary song of the Hawaii amakihi is a rapid trill.The Hawaii amakihi has a very wide diet, and has been able to find food despite habitat alteration.It has a tubular tongue, which it uses to drink nectar from flowers such as those of the ōhia lehua ("Metrosideros polymorpha"), ākala ("Rubus hawaiensis"), and māmane ("Sophora chrysophylla").