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Sculpture

South Island goose

A flightless goose of about 18 kg.

Proposed
A pen-and-ink cut-out drawing of a pair of South Island geese in silhouette with their skeletons drawn inside.
South Island goose — a flightless goose of about 18 kg.Trish Shirley

Where we are now

A drawing and a spot: a pair, 1.2 m high.

Why it is in the plan

It stood about the same height as the little bush moa.

In deep time

Cnemiornis calcitrans. About a metre long and around 18 kg — the largest goose species, flightless, and otherwise not unlike a Cape Barren goose.

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