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Extinct Birds Resources |
Extinct Birds | Huia | Moa | List |
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Links amd Contacts Department of Conservation (DoC). Look in the blue government section at the front of your telephone book to find the DoC office nearest you, or check www.doc.govt.nz/templates/page.aspx?id=38642 Forest and Bird. (see details bottom of page) Otago Museum. PO Box 6202, 419 Great King Street, Dunedin. Phone (03) 477 2372. Email mail@otagomuseum.govt.nz Find more info about Otago Museum at www.nzmuseums.co.nz Te Papa. National Museum. PO Box 467, Wellington. Phone (04) 381 7000. Email mail@tepapa.govt.nz www.tepapa.govt.nz |
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Bird Magazine Articles May 1986 - Moa’s Ark. The natural world
of the moa. Check your school and local libraries for copies of the Forest and Bird magazine. |
| Books Fossils. By Jenny Jones. Published by Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd. This book covers what fossils are, how they are formed, where they are found, and why fossils are important. Huia. By Jenny Jones. Published by Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd. This book describes what the Huia looked like, what they ate and where they lived. Also explained are the reasons for its decline. Moa. By Jenny Jones. Published by Reed Publishing (NZ) Ltd. This book describes what the Moa looked like, what they ate and where they lived. Also explained are the reasons for its decline. Moa. The story of a fabulous bird. By Philip Temple and Chris Gaskin. Published by Collins, 1985. Moas. Lost giants of New Zealand. By Beverly McCulloch. Published by Harper Collins, 1992. New Zealand’s Extinct Bird. By Brian Gill and Paul Martinson. Published by Random Century New Zealand Ltd, 1991. No Moa. By Beverly McCulloch. Published by Canterbury Museum Press, 1982. Prodigious Birds. Moas and Moa Hunting in prehistoric New Zealand. By Atholl Anderson. Published by Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pyramid Valley. The story of New Zealand’s greatest moa swamp. By Roger Duff. Published by The Association of Friends of the Canterbury Museum, 1952. Te Moa. The life and death of New Zealand’s unique bird. By Barney Brewster. Published by Nikau press. The Book of the Huia. By W J Phillipps. Published by Whitcombe and Tombs Ltd, 1963. |
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Resources New Zealand extinct bird stamps. New Zealand Post. Philatelic Bureau, Private Bag 3001, Wanganui. |
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