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Armchair Splits in the Pacific

10,000 Birds

After getting a Banded Woodpecker on my last full day my eBird life list was sitting pretty at 1500. The Wattled Honeyeater is a species, or now more accurately a genus, found in eastern Melanesia (Fiji) and in western Polynesia (Samoa and Tonga). Hopefully someone will give these species some more inspired names than this.

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