11001-00302 Heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) eggshell of large wingless ground bird now extinct but formerly widespread in the South Island lowland forest edges, wetland margins, shrubland, duneland and grassland. This is one of W.B.D. Mantell's original reconstructions [MNZS00002] from Awamoa, near Oamaru *
11001-00401 Crested moa (Pachyornis australis) skull [S27896] from Honeycomb Hill Cave, Karamea. This moa lived in the far north and far south of the South Island in subalpine grassland, and could cope with the cold alpine terrain there. Cranial pits in the skull, suggest it may have been crested *
DSC_6416 Eastern brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) pair outside nest burrow entrance, with male just emerging from nest *
![11001-00302 Heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) eggshell of large wingless ground bird now extinct but formerly widespread in the South Island lowland forest edges, wetland margins, shrubland, duneland and grassland. This is one of W.B.D. Mantell's original reconstructions [MNZS00002] from Awamoa, near Oamaru *](https://www.rodmorris.co.nz/img/spacer.gif)