Island bird of Kauai

Ive heard of 2 stories about where they came from and how they got to be wild on the island.

One is that early Polynesians and Europeans brought chickens to Kauai. The Filipinos brought the brightly colored fighting cocks, and Walla, the wild chickens. Somehow they escaped into the wild and multiplied.

2nd is that it is said that the captivity was was destroyed by Hurricane ‘Iniki’ in 1992 , freeing them from their cages to roam and multiply.