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It was once the world’s largest and greatest flightless bird until its extinction somewhere around the 1500s when it was believed to have been hunted to death by New Zealand’s native population, the Maori. So what made New Zealand’s Moa so special?

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One of the least known birds of prey and one of the greatest hunters New Zealand had ever seen. The Haast Eagle was New Zealand’s version of Africa’s lion or Asia’s tiger, hunting with intense and precise vigour mostly for another pre homo-sapien New Zealand phenom, a large flightless bird named the Moa.