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Eastern moaMoa mōmona
New Zealand Birds Online ^ | 1846 | Emeus crassus (Owen, 1846)

Posted on 07/17/2025 9:39:19 PM PDT by kawhill

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1 posted on 07/17/2025 9:39:19 PM PDT by kawhill
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"giant flightless endemic birds"

Cats prefer small flightless birds.


2 posted on 07/17/2025 9:43:24 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: kawhill

“moaMoaMoa! How do you like it?
How do you like it?”


3 posted on 07/17/2025 9:58:10 PM PDT by lee martell
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In the midnight hour...she cried ‘MoaMoaMoa’.......with a Rebel Yell.......


4 posted on 07/17/2025 10:02:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Larry Lucido

The moa the merrier.


5 posted on 07/17/2025 10:06:03 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: lee martell

Larry, Moa, and Curley Joe-a.


6 posted on 07/17/2025 10:08:36 PM PDT by fidelis (Ecce Crucem Domini! Fugite partes adversae! Vicit Leo de tribu Juda, Radix David! Alleluia!)
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To: kawhill

They basically resembled giant emus.


7 posted on 07/17/2025 10:11:29 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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Excellent.


8 posted on 07/17/2025 10:20:23 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: kawhill

Muh-muh-muh-my, my, my, my, my, WHOO!!

Muh-muh-muh-my momoana.


9 posted on 07/17/2025 10:20:46 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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You’re just a flightless bird.
No, he’s a dreamer...

https://www.facebook.com/libertymutual/videos/farmer-limu-emu-doug-liberty-mutual-insurance-commercial/2775222926011827/


10 posted on 07/17/2025 10:25:24 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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11 posted on 07/17/2025 11:32:21 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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That is the Haas eagle, capable of taking down moas and adult people and other large animals


12 posted on 07/17/2025 11:33:02 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: hellinahandcart

😆 good one


13 posted on 07/17/2025 11:33:49 PM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/lifestyle-buzz/colossal-moa-one-of-the-largest-birds-once-lost-to-time-is-now-the-5th-de-extinction-species/ss-AA1IBRwk?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTS&cvid=6879eabfb0b3439f935138481508d835&ei=23 Iknow, lot of clutter; whole reason I started the thread.


14 posted on 07/18/2025 12:23:56 AM PDT by kawhill (On his headstone read: DNP. Listed as questionable, day-to-day. I guess he was a baseball player.)
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Extinct due to overhunting. I wonder what the quality of meat was, I’ve eaten ostrich and it was more like beef than typical white meat poultry. I thought it was very good, but could be partly due to the excellent sauce, more like a glaze.


15 posted on 07/18/2025 2:37:45 AM PDT by Omnivore-Dan (have to )
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To: kawhill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa
The biggest Moa were 12 feet tall and weighed over 500 pounds.
I wonder if they could kick like a cassowary.

All moas were killed within 100 years of man reaching New Zealand.


16 posted on 07/18/2025 3:19:49 AM PDT by Doctor Congo
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Lived in New Zealand from 1982 to 1984 and that was one thing I got to learn about the place. Imagine if you had Doctor Who’s timebox and were to go back to a time when the Saxons and Vikings warred over the British Isles or Charles The Hammer Martel ruled France. New Zealand at that time (before the first Polynesians arrived a few centuries later) would have been this very unique museum of flightless birds and rare species of wood and it was very fascinating (and that bid saddening) to learn about all of this and what happened when the Maori and later Europeans arrived.


17 posted on 07/18/2025 4:04:13 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: lee martell

“Moa than the greatest love
I’ve ever seen...”

“Give me Moa, give Moa...
Give me Moa”

“Here she comes now,
She’s Moany, Moany...”

...oh, boy, getting desperate...
Well, no Moa!


18 posted on 07/18/2025 4:16:53 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: kawhill

Soon to be joined in extinction by Big Bird.


19 posted on 07/18/2025 4:57:31 AM PDT by omni-scientist
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Poppa um moa moa, poppa um moa moa


20 posted on 07/18/2025 5:51:59 AM PDT by GodBlessRonaldReagan (The jolly, candy-like button!)
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