New Zealand Birds

11000-82620 Haast's eagle (Hieraaetus moorei) charcoal rock drawing of stylized eagle in limestone rock shelter at Maungati in South Canterbury. Now extinct, this giant bird was 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 *

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11000-82620 Haast's eagle (Hieraaetus moorei) charcoal rock drawing of stylized eagle in limestone rock shelter at Maungati in South Canterbury. Now extinct, this giant bird was 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 *

Harpagornis 82620 Haasts eagle Hieraaetus Aquila Maungati South Canterbury pareora river moorei extinct giant rock drawing painting charcoal limestone cave maori