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  • Archived text from soon-to-be-deleted page "moas". (automated conversion) 25/2/2002
    • Moas (Dinornithiformes) are a group of large flightless birds numbering about a dozen. They lived on New Zealand and ranged in height from one meter to three and a half meters. They were already extinct when Europeans first landed in 1642.See also Extinct birds
  • Was converted into a redirect to moa by 195.149.37.130 on 21/7/2002
  • Was deleted by Tannin 09:33, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC) because there is no such word. The plural of "moa" is "moa". "Moas" is not a word, and a link to "moas" should show up in red to alert writers to this all-too-often commited error.

Tannin 09:33, 8 Jan 2004 (UTC)

I have added this (as I had originally put it on the Extinct Birds page ages ago) under the new section "Trivia".Dysmorodrepanis 09:05, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Picture

uhhh the picture of the moa is the same one of the picture on the haast's eagle page.

The picture is of a Haast's eagle attacking a moa, so it's used for both.Dinoguy2 03:35, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"region often visited by hunters and hikers"

"Moa experts say the likelihood of any moa remaining alive is extremely unlikely, since they would be giant birds in a region often visited by hunters and hikers." While it is extremely unlikely any survive, the confirmation that moose still exist in NZ would give the lie to the 2nd part of this sentence. A citation for the "moa experts" is needed. Nurg 10:58, 8 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

need to expand

This article needs to be expanded and somewhat beautified. I started with moving the stuff from Extinct Birds (which deals with post-1500 extinctions, so moa shouldn't be there anyway except a note on Megalapteryx possible survival to C19). Also, I updated the taxonomy to current standards and expanded the references. As it stands, it is passable, but I am not really satisfied - too many gaps and the formatting could be improved (rm redundancies created by "Extinct Birds" section merger etc). Since I work on the avian extionction lists most of the time, I will only visit here occasionally top dump some new reference when I feel like it (there are tons of moa papers). Stuff on feeding habits etc would be highly appreciated, for example, as they have been reconstructed in detail for some species at least.Dysmorodrepanis 09:05, 19 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Apperance and recent survival

I heard that Maori stories described large moas with colorful crests - is it true? Also, HBW in article of extinct birds mentions live sightings from 19. century by very respectable political figure and Maori chief. Were they refuted? Jurek

More importantly, were they corroborated? Moriori 21:03, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've read that the Moa was 12-13 ft tall? but infact it was only 9-10?

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