These two islands (255 km² in total, reaching an altitude of 500 m) are a French overseas territory in the south-west Pacific Ocean. A rapidly increasing human population and resulting agricultural activities have led to clearance of forest and a decrease in bird habitats (Dupon 1986b, Guyot and Thibault 1988). The islands are treated as a Secondary Area because seven central Polynesian restricted-range species occur (Purple-capped Fruit-dove Ptilinopus porphyraceus, Shy Ground-dove Gallicolumba stairii, Blue-crowned Lorikeet Vini australis, Polynesian Triller Lalage maculosa, Fiji Shrikebill Clytorhynchus vitiensis, Wattled Honeyeater Foulehaio carunculata and Polynesian Starling Aplonis tabuensis); as all these species also occur on Samoa (EBA 203) to the east and on Fiji (EBA 202) to the west, Wallis and Futuna have no clear affinity with either one EBA rather than the other.

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BirdLife International (2024) Endemic Bird Area factsheet: Wallis and Futuna. Downloaded from https://datazone.birdlife.org/eba/factsheet/427 on 22/11/2024.