Comments on: Giant Moa Birds Seem To Be Alive http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/ Animals kingdom opens for you Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:17:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: angel http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-2801 angel Tue, 20 May 2008 07:34:25 +0000 http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/#comment-2801 Thanks for sharing this useful information with us! Thanks for sharing this useful information with us!

]]> By: Greg http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-2798 Greg Tue, 20 May 2008 06:18:27 +0000 http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/#comment-2798 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 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

]]> By: angel http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-756 angel Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:51:43 +0000 http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/#comment-756 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! 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!

]]> By: Johann http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-749 Johann Tue, 22 Jan 2008 02:00:26 +0000 http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/#comment-749 Wow, those are some big birds - probably too big for me to herd! Woofs, Johann Wow, those are some big birds – probably too big for me to herd! Woofs, Johann

]]> By: angel http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-720 angel Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:17:07 +0000 http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/#comment-720 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! 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!

]]> By: skylar http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/comment-page-1/#comment-714 skylar Wed, 16 Jan 2008 05:22:06 +0000 http://curiousanimals.net/birds/giant-moa-birds-seem-to-be-alive/#comment-714 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 http://awolfadventure.blogspot.com 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
http://awolfadventure.blogspot.com

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