Pronounced "more" as opposed to "mower" it was a native, flightless New Zealand
bird.
Now extinct (for a couple of hundred years), the
10 various species were eaten to extinction by the early Maori
people.
To give an idea of the size of the moa, picture the smallest species being the size of a turkey, and the largest being the size of Big
Bird from Sesame Street.
The Moa traditionally lived in the forest and Moa bones can still be found in caves and swamps throughout New Zealand.