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Eastern moa

Moa momona, the slender moa.

Funded

Paid for and drawn. Not built.

A pen-and-ink cut-out drawing of a pair of eastern moa in silhouette with their skeletons drawn inside.
Eastern moa — moa momona.Trish Shirley

Where we are now

A drawing and a spot: a pair, 2 m by 2.4 m, on a plinth.

Why it is in the plan

One of five moa on the trail, between the giant and the smallest.

In deep time

Emeus crassus, moa momona. Around 1.8 m tall and 70 kg — one of the more slender moa, and still a very big bird.

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