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Polynesian Wattled Honeyeater
Foulehaio carunculatus (Gmelin, JF, 1788)
Meliphagidae — Honeyeaters
Polynesian Wattled Honeyeater, Foulehaio carunculatus, is a honeyeater of the Pacific islands, breeding in the Lau Archipelago, Wallis and Futuna, Savaii, Upolu and nearby islands, and Tonga. It belongs to the family Meliphagidae and was first described by Gmelin in 1788. It is one of three species now placed in Foulehaio. The bird is found in tropical moist lowland forest, tropical mangrove forest and tropical moist montane forest. It was once treated as the same species as the Fiji wattled honeyeater and the kikau.
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Family
- Meliphagidae — Honeyeaters
- Breeding range
- Pacific Ocean: Lau Arch. (e Fiji, sw Polynesia), Wallis and Futuna Is. (ne of Fiji), Savaii, Upolu and satellites (w Samoa) and Tonga (sc Polynesia)
