Polynesian wattled honeyeater

Polynesian wattled honeyeater
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Foulehaio
Species:
F. carunculatus
Binomial name
Foulehaio carunculatus
(Gmelin, JF, 1788)

The Polynesian wattled honeyeater (Foulehaio carunculatus) or the eastern wattled honeyeater, is a species of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. It was considered conspecific with the Fiji wattled honeyeater and the kikau.

The species is endemic to the islands of the Central Pacific, occurring on American Samoa, Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Its natural habitats are tropical moist lowland forests, tropical mangrove forests, and tropical moist montane forest.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2017) [amended version of 2017 assessment]. "Foulehaio carunculatus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2017: e.T103685955A118497755. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T103685955A118497755.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.