Eastern Wattled-Honeyeater

Eastern Wattled-HoneyeaterA 2017 American Samoa manual calls this bird the Polynesian Wattled-Honeyeater and prints Foulehaio carunculata. It places the species on the islands of eastern Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa. In American Samoa, birds in breeding condition were captured throughout the year.What does it look like?Juveniles in the American Samoa sample resembled older birds but had more filamentous feathers and, on average, greyer irises. Some juveniles showed more dusky breast mottling, which was more evident on Ta'u and Ofu-Olosega than on Tutuila.How does it live?A 2017 American Samoa manual calls this bird the Polynesian Wattled-Honeyeater and prints Foulehaio carunculata. It places the species on the islands of eastern Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa. In American Samoa, birds in breeding condition were captured throughout the year.The manual concludes that birds in breeding condition were recorded in every month in American Samoa, based on specimens and monitoring-station capture data.Keeping it safeAn extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.