Eastern Wattled-honeyeater
Foulehaio carunculatus
Family: Honeyeaters
Eastern Wattled-honeyeater is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
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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.
The specific epithet is from Latin caruncula, meaning a small piece of flesh, and hence wattled.