Moa Collection

Extinct / Dinornis / Moa
dinornis giganteis - a reconstruction based on bones discovered

Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892)
Portrait of Sir Richard Owen, an English biologist, comparative anatomist and palaeontologist. Picture shows Owen and the skeleton of Dinornis maximus, c. 1877. From The Life of Owen (1894)

Extinct dinornis or moa, aepyornis ingens
An artists impression of how the extinct dinornis or moa (aepyornis ingens), a genus of flightless birds native to Madagascar, might have looked

Aepyornis Ingens Moa
An artists impression of how aepyornis ingens, a genus of flightless birds native to Madagascar, might have looked

Moa River Railway Bridge, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1912

Moa bone fragment
First piece of moa bone, found between 1831 and 1836. The 15cm fragment comes from the species Dinornis novaezealandiae and is 0.01-1.8 million years old

Moa, Dinornis novaezealandiae, extinct giant bird of New Zealand.. Colour printed (chromolithograph) illustration by F. John from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1910, Hamburg

Moa birds, Dinornis robustus, being hunted by men with bows and arrows.. The moa were flightless birds native to New Zealand, hunted to extinction by the Maoris

Dinoris sp. moa skeletons
Inscribed J. Benjamin Stone, July 1907. Held in the Natural History Museum Archive PH 128/6

Dinornis elephantopus, heavy-footed moa
An extinct wingless bird from the superficial deposits of the middle island of New Zealand in the gallery of Fossils, British Museum, height of skeleton 5 ft 6 in. 1858. NHM Archives 1210 1/11

Little Bush Moa
Illustration of a Little Bush Moa by James Erxleben

Pachyornis elephantopus, heavy-footed moa
Skeleton of a heavy-footed moa (Pachyornis elephantopus) specimen found in New Zealand during the Holocene period (10, 000 to present). See also T25118

Pachyornis elephantophus, moa bird
The giant extinct bird seen here is a Moa and is about 5000 years old, found exclusively in New Zealand

Sir Richard Owen (1804-1892) painted in 1844
Owen holds the leg bone of a moa, and is wearing robes of Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons. Oil painting by Henry William Pickersgill (1782-1875)

Upland Moa

Dinornis giganteus, giant moa
Specimen of the extinct bird the giant moa (Dinornis giganteus), the largest bird that ever lived

Dinornis Giganteus
A DINORNIS GIGANTEUS (giant moa) is about to be attacked by a native New Zealander, while a smaller DINORNIS ELEPHANTOPUS browses in the background

Dinornis Maximus
Sir Richard Owen poses beside the skeleton of a moa (dinornis maximus)

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