How to Use moa in a Sentence

moa

noun

• Centuries ago, bush moas were among the world's largest birds.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 May 2024
• Certainly, the moa were, which would be enough to doom the predator.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• The smallest, the little bush moa, stood a little over four feet tall.
  — Jacob Mikanowski, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2017
• There were 11 or so species of moa alive in the past, ranging from hefty to alarmingly large.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2 July 2012
• The moa was a large, flightless bird native to New Zealand, with species reaching up to 12 feet in height.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
• The moa, a flightless bird over 2.6 meters tall and the pouakai, an eagle with a wingspan of 3-4 meters.
  — Marta Balaga, Variety, 2 Aug. 2023
• Rather than cows or antelopes, there was a family of flightless birds known as moa.
  — Boyce Upholt, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2022
• Rather than cows or antelopes, there was a family of flightless birds known as moa.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• Extinct flightless birds—the moa of New Zealand and the dodo—were favorites, along with the Yangtze River dolphin.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2018
• The moa were a species of flightless birds native to New Zealand that were hunted to extinction by humans.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2019
• The tallest bird to ever exist was the extinct South Island giant moa, native to New Zealand.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 20 June 2024
• When Western scientists first encountered moa, the idea that species could go extinct was just a few decades old.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• When Western scientists first encountered moa, the idea that species could go extinct was just a few decades old.
  — Boyce Upholt, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2022
• The team also tracked down a second upland moa coprolite that was housed in a museum.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
• These include the world’s biggest parrot, a giant eagle, a giant burrowing bat, and the moa, a kind of large flightless bird.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2019
• These include the world's biggest parrot, a giant eagle, a giant burrowing bat, and the moa, a kind of large flightless bird.
  — Jack Guy, CNN, 14 Aug. 2019
• There were several different species of moa that are difficult to tell apart - egg DNA could help Oskam to do just that.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2010
• Some important answers lie in something the moa left behind: ancient bird poop.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2018
• Today, moa are extinct and kakapos as well as kiwi, the nation’s bird, are endangered.
  — Roni Dengler, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2019
• New Zealand was once a land of flightless birds like the extinct moa—no terrestrial mammalian predators in sight.
  — Rina Diane Caballar, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Dec. 2023
• Researchers have been finding bush moa fossils for centuries, Edwards said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 23 May 2024
• Now, however, with the moa extinct, the fungi are likely not being dispersed as widely or as often.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2025
• New Zealand is believed to have been the site of many gigantic birds that later became extinct, including the world’s largest parrot, a giant eagle and an emu-like bird called the moa.
  — Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2019
• Now, the country’s roster of extinct bulky birds—which includes the massive moa and the huge Haast’s eagle—has grown even larger, with the discovery of a Paleocene-era penguin that stood as tall as a human.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 14 Aug. 2019
• Not only moa dominated avifaunas, but giant geese and adzebills shared the forest floor, while a giant eagle ruled the skies.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 6 Aug. 2019
• The varied moa species of ancient New Zealand, the enormous elephant birds of Madagascar and even the recently extinct dodo of Mauritius are all examples of what can happen when birds settle in on islands.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 May 2025
• Several others were classified by comparing, say, a femur to a toe, and by borrowing, inexactly, a system developed to assess New Zealand’s moa, another famous extinct bunch of ratites (generally large, flightless birds).
  — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 25 Sep. 2018
• Educated interpretation Although the coprolites yielded lots of information on the ecosystems surrounding the moa, questions remain.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 15 Feb. 2018