Sentences with phrase «flightless birds known»
For millions of years, nine species of large, flightless birds known as moas (Dinornithiformes) thrived in New Zealand.
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To start, for those of you who may not know what a kiwi is, it's a small nocturnal and flightless bird that's native to New Zealand.
«We have to remember it appears 10 million years or so after the oldest known bird - like dinosaurs and so our famous «first bird» may really be a secondarily flightless one.»
With few trees to obstruct views, it is one of the best places in the country to watch tapir (Tapirus terrestris), giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), maned wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus), and, of course, the greater rhea (Rhea americana), the large flightless bird related to the ostrich which is locally known as «ema» in Portuguese.
In isolation, New Zealand bloomed into a biome of species known nowhere else in the world, including the Moa: huge, flightless birds hunted to extinction by the early peoples.
Known as one of Tropical North Queensland «s most scenic beaches, Etty Bay is truly where the rainforest meets the sea and it's where you can spot Australia's largest flightless bird, the Southern Cassowary.