Story: Moa

More links and websites

• DNA content and distribution in ancient feathers and potential to reconstruct the plumage of extinct avian taxa

  A 2009 paper about the analysis of subfossil moa feathers, by Nicolas J. Rawlence, Jamie R. Wood, Kyle N. Armstrong and Alan Cooper, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society.

• New Zealand Birds Online

  This website contains detailed information on all New Zealand bird species, including extinct and fossil species, searchable by name. It also contains a photographic key to guide bird identification.

More suggestions and sources

• Anderson, Atholl. Prodigious birds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• Berentson, Quinn. Moa: the life and death of New Zealand's legendary bird. Nelson: Craig Potton, 2012.
• Bunce, Michael, and others. ‘Extreme reversed sexual size dimorphism in the extinct New Zealand moa Dinornis.’ Nature 425 (2003): 172–175.
• Huynen, Leon, and others. ‘Nuclear DNA sequences detect species limits in ancient moa.’ Nature 425 (2003): 175–178.
• Oliver, W. R. B. New Zealand birds. 2nd ed., rev. and enl. Wellington: Reed, 1955.
• Worthy, T. H., and R. P. Scofield. 'Twenty-first century advances in knowledge of the biology of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes): a morphological analysis and diagnosis revised.' New Zealand Journal of Zoology 39 (2010): 87–153.
• Worthy, Trevor H., and Richard N. Holdaway. The lost world of the moa: prehistoric life in New Zealand. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2002.