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Haast’s eagle attacking a moa
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- Haast’s eagle attacking a moa
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The main avian predator of the moa was the gigantic Haast’s eagle (Harpogornis moorei), with a wingspan of about 3 metres. When Polynesians arrived, the eagle was very much alive, and possibly carried off a few of their number. By 1400 CE large areas of South Island forest were burned off, reducing the habitat of the eagle’s prey; like the moa, it eventually became extinct. In 1872 one Māori told the former New Zealand governor George Grey that the eagle had been known as the ‘hōkioi’, after ...
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- 4 March 2009
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