Euryapteryx

Taxobox
name = Turkey moa
status = Fossil
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
superordo = Paleognathae
ordo = Struthioniformes
familia = Dinornithidae
genus = "Euryapteryx"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =North Island Broad-billed Moa "E. curtus" (Owen, 1870) South Island Broad-billed Moa "E. gravis"Euryapteryx is an extinct genus of moa consisting of the two species the North Island Broad-billed Moa, also called Coastal, Stout Legged, Turkey, or Greater Broad-billed Moa, and the South Island Broad-billed Moa.

The North Island Broad-billed Moa was common on the North Island of New Zealand, where it fed on twigs, leaves, fruit and seeds. It lived more in the open than other moas. A scientist once described the turkey moa as being 'four times the size of a chicken and probably ten times as dumb'.

External links

* [http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/objectdetails.aspx?oid=710923&coltype=art&regno=2006-0010-1/24 "Stout-legged Moa. Euryapteryx curtus." by Paul Martinson. Artwork produced for the book Extinct Birds of New Zealand by Alan Tennyson, Te Papa Press, Wellington, 2006]