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11000-82620 Haast's eagle (Aquila moorei) Maori rock art. A charcoal drawing of a large stylized bird, thought to represent NZ 's extinct giant eagle in 'The Cave of the Eagle', a limestone rock shelter in South Canterbury. Now extinct, the giant bird was once widespread in the South Island in the Pleistocene, its range contracted so that in the Holocene it only occurred in mountainous areas, and east of the Southern Alps. Craigmore *
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