New Zealand Birds
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DSC_6418 Eastern brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli) pair outside nest burrow entrance, with male just emerging from nest *
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![11001-00302 Heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) eggshell of large wingless ground bird now extinct but formerly widespread in the South Island lowlands, in forests, shrublands, dunelands and grasslands. This is one of W.B.D. Mantell's original reconstructions [MNZS00002] from Awamoa, near Oamaru *](https://photos.smugmug.com/New-Zealand-Birds/New-Zealand-Birds/i-4gqg7hV/4/daeddc45/Ti/imp%20Heavy-footed%20moa_00302v-Ti.jpg)
![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, and could cope with the cold alpine terrain there. Cranial pits in the skull, suggest it may have been crested *](https://photos.smugmug.com/New-Zealand-Birds/New-Zealand-Birds/i-kDdNk47/1/88ed1840/Ti/Crested%20moa%20skull_00401-Ti.jpg)
![11001-00609 Eastern moa (Emeus crassus) pelvis [S27896] showing damage from the giant eagle (Harpagornis). Pyramid Valley. Eastern moa lived only in the South Island lowlands, in forests, grasslands, dunelands, and shrublands. Females were 15-25% larger than males, and like almost all moa species, it was extinct by the year 1500 *](https://photos.smugmug.com/New-Zealand-Birds/New-Zealand-Birds/i-JkThsRT/10/424d770b/Ti/eastern%20moa_00609v-Ti.jpg)
![11001-00608 Eastern moa (Emeus crassus) pelvis [S27896] showing damage from the giant eagle (Harpagornis). Pyramid Valley. Eastern moa lived only in the South Island lowlands, in forests, grasslands, dunelands, and shrublands. Females were 15-25% larger than males, and like almost all moa species, it was extinct by the year 1500 *](https://photos.smugmug.com/New-Zealand-Birds/New-Zealand-Birds/i-LZ2t8Zm/10/e2c56aec/Ti/eastern%20moa_00608v-Ti.jpg)
![11001-00702 Stout-legged moa (Euryapteryx curtus gravis) skull [S30212] from Paynes Ford, Takaka, of a large extinct flightless bird once abundant in the dry eastern regions of both the North and South Islands *](https://photos.smugmug.com/New-Zealand-Birds/New-Zealand-Birds/i-X59rtS9/1/f2f5c6bc/Ti/stout-legged%20moa_00702-Ti.jpg)
![11001-00706 Stout-legged moa (Euryapteryx curtus gravis) egg [OM Av7479] from Ettrick Burn, Otago, of a large extinct flightless bird once abundant in the dry eastern regions of both the North and South Islands *](https://photos.smugmug.com/New-Zealand-Birds/New-Zealand-Birds/i-4KwFdTC/0/05c5c3a2/Ti/SI%20Stout-legged%20moa_00706v-Ti.jpg)
