Moa Birds were big birds, they considered to be one of the biggest birds ever known in our Big World. However, there were smaller Moa as well (not bigger than a turkey). Moa birds are called extinct birds but not so far, there appeared some doubts whether this fact is true or not?
Moa birds were native to New Zealand. They led their own lives, enjoyed them, but suddenly arrived the Maori people. They started killing birds, because there were scarce of food, Moa Birds were haunted. According to scientists, Moa birds were extinct by 1500 and no white men ever succeed to see such a bird. 
So, Moa birds:
- were really big;
- lived in forests;
- were extinct many many hundred years ago;
- there were 11 species of Moa Birds;
- people still find their bones.
Not so far, a scientist from Australia claimed that Moa Birds are alive and he can show us photographic evidence next month. Rex Gilroy says that he is about to discover the colony of the presumed-extinct little scrub moa – anomalopteryx didiformis in the Ureweras. He is almost ready to bet, that they are alive. But he is not going to reveal the exact location of birds. He doesn’t pay attention to critical and skeptical remarks and believes to meet Moa Birds one day.
Wow, Namaste’ , those birds look like they would like us for lunch ;0) . They kind of remind me of emu’s and ostriches though who are very prehistoric like, they have big feet that are velocaraptorish. I visited an ostrich farm once, and whoa they are bigger than life, and boy can you say dinosaur! Even their energy and prescence is like a cross between a dinosaur and bird.
I do hope they have found some surviving moa. metta.
skylar
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I hope too. And you are perfectly right, Moa Birds look like ostriches. I visited an ostrich farm too and was impressed with these really huge and so interesting birds. And your adventures… Just cool! Well done!
Wow, those are some big birds – probably too big for me to herd! Woofs, Johann
Hello, Johann! They are big, no doubts. The only one thing, we will hardly meet them nowadays. But, we shall see what we shall see! Thanks for your comment!
Hi
Rex is also not a scientist.
The following is a complete account of Rex and Heather Gilroy’s March/April 2008 North Island investigation for evidence of living Moas, principally the Small Scrub Moa, Anomalopteryx didyformis. We were, however, to make perhaps an even more startling discovery, adding a second Moa species to the list of living ‘extinct’ New Zealand ratites.
Another field expedition to New Zealand is planned, hopefully in 2009, during which sites in the South Island will also be investigated.The official scientific view is that the Moas, which were anywhere between 3-4 metres down to 90cm in height, have been extinct for at least the last 600 years. Having tramped the rugged, often vast and inaccessible mountainous and coastal forestlands of these islands on frequent expeditions since 1980, we have never been able to accept this proposition.
After 20 years of field researches, during our 2000 expedition on Friday 17th march our efforts were finally rewarded. We had begun a search in the Te Urewera National Park inland from Hawkes’ Bay on the eastern side of North Island. Finding an old disused track we followed this up a forest-covered mountainside. Below us, down a steep forest-covered slope was a gully. The track at this point was about 2m wide with a 1.5m bank above, beyond which lay more dense forest covering a lengthy terrace.
click the link to the monthly newsletter page to read the report on the trip to New Zealand and Moa discoveries. This has large photos of the moa tracks.
http://www.mysteriousaustralia.com/newslet…newsletter.html
Thanks for sharing this useful information with us!
Maori weren’t the only ones who killed them, the haasts eagle also ate them which is remarkable because they were huge.