Moa and extinct birds word search
Giant moa, the huia and Haast's eagle, the largest eagle we know of. Twenty words about the birds New Zealand has lost and the bones and swamps that tell their story.
- Adzebill
- Bones
- Eggshell
- Extinct
- Feathers
- Flightless
- Footprints
- Forest
- Fossils
- Giant
- Gizzard
- Haast's eagle
- Huia
- Laughing owl
- Moa
- Museum
- Skeleton
- Swamp
- Talons
- Wingless
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- Adzebill
- Bones
- Eggshell
- Extinct
- Feathers
- Flightless
- Footprints
- Forest
- Fossils
- Giant
- Gizzard
- Haast's eagle
- Huia
- Laughing owl
- Moa
- Museum
- Skeleton
- Swamp
- Talons
- Wingless
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About this word search
Moa were giant flightless birds found only in New Zealand, and the largest stood taller than a person. They were hunted by Haast's eagle, the largest eagle known to science, which became extinct along with them. Moa disappeared within about a century of people arriving, and later the huia and the laughing owl were lost too. Their bones are still found in swamps and caves today.
The grid is fourteen by fourteen and the words run across, down and diagonally, never backwards. Haast's eagle and laughing owl are the longest at eleven letters. Moa is the shortest at three letters and easy to overlook. Haast's eagle is written HAASTSEAGLE without the apostrophe, and the Z of adzebill and gizzard is a rare letter worth hunting first.
After the puzzle, look up a picture of a moa next to a person and compare their size. Museums such as Canterbury Museum and Te Papa have moa skeletons that make a great trip.
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