Wattled honeyeater

Wattled honeyeater
spp carunculatus. 'Eua, Tonga
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Meliphagidae
Genus: Foulehaio
L. Reichenbach, 1852
Species: F. carunculatus
Binomial name
Foulehaio carunculatus
(Gmelin, 1788)

The wattled honeyeater (Foulehaio carunculatus) is a species of bird in the honeyeater family Meliphagidae. It is the only species in the genus Foulehaio.

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.

ssp taviunensis, Taveuni, Fiji Isles
ssp procerior, Nadi, Viti Levu, Fiji Isles
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