Category:Dinornithidae
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Articles relating to the Moa (order Dinornithiformes), an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand. There were nine species (in six genera). The two largest species, Dinornis robustus and Dinornis novaezelandiae, reached about 3.6 metres (12 ft) in height with neck outstretched, and weighed about 230 kilograms (510 lb), while the smallest, the bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis), was around the size of a turkey.
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This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Pages in category "Dinornithidae"
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- Animals with only two limbs
- Bird extinctions since 1500
- Extinct birds of New Zealand
- Extinct flightless birds
- Higher-level bird taxa restricted to New Zealand
- Holocene extinctions
- Late Quaternary prehistoric birds
- Miocene first appearances
- Notopalaeognathae
- Ratites
- Species made extinct by human activities
- Taxa named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte