Struthioniformes

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Struthioniformes	World Map	Parvclassis: Palaeognathae
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Giant Haast's eagle attacking New Zealand Moa (Art: John Megahan)

The Moa died out because of hunting lets try not to exterminate any more species.

Struthionidae

This ancient order contains the world’s largest birds and contained the largest ever living bird. The Moa only disappeared from New Zealand a few years before White settlers arrived. There are now only three families included and ten species. A group of record breakers the ostrich is the largest living bird and lays the largest egg and the kiwi lays the largest egg in relationship to its body weight. The Cassowry is said to be the worlds most dangerous bird.

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Credits Some of the maps, data, are from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Data from Avibase

01/03/2008 0000000

25/10/2009 500,000

28/02/2012 870,300

01/01/2009 151,000

01/10/2010 562,291