North Island Broad-billed Moa
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The North Island Broad-billed Moa, also called Coastal Moa is an extinct species of ratite bird belonging to the Euryapteryx turkey moa genus.
This species 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'.
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