The Giant Moa Info Report!

Giant Moa!

This Information report is on the Giant moa this will tell you about extinction, food, habitat and adaptations. And if you read more you will find out more and more facts about this mystery creature.     

Giant Moas will normally rest at coastal regions on the beach or just go to shrublands and greater barriers. On the south and north island of Aotearoa, they also go to Subalpine Areas around 1800 meters above sea level. 

In their Habitat they were an easy target for hunters to kill with spears and traps, most of the hunters are Maori because the first known as the archaic or moa  hunter  with polynesians made their first ever contact with the moa.The huge  Moa only ever had one enimie on their habitat called the Haast Eagle that would swoop down and try and hurt or kill them.

Giant Moa’s love to eat everything like shrubs,  berry’s,sticks, leaves and flowers. Maori people and polynesians would kill them, so they could eat their flesh then give the feathers and skin to clothes makers to make coats and other things, Giant Moas were an easy target to kill and eat because the Moas highet is 3.7 meters (and 12ft tall) they also did weigh up to 230kg’s.

Due to the lack of mammalian predators, birds in New Zealand are involved in a unique manner. Birds such as the moa are involved in the largest flightless bird – a role normally reserved for males. Moa’s were hunted by the Maori, English and Polynesians until extinctcion.

Can you  believe that the Moa can run 112 kilometers an hour isn’t that crazy! In Conclusion this giant moa is extinct and I hope you can go home and tell your parents and friends about this giant bird, (Fun Fact) This is a giant bird that  was hunted for centuries and was 12feet tall!.