
04/24/2025
One more art reveal for my upcoming middle grade novel, “Peter Little Wing and the Bay of Islands”…
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During this story of dual adventures, both Peter and Nandy Enzo spin the tale of “The Moa” to each of their captive audience of fellow travellers.
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From Wikipedia: Moa (order Dinornithiformes) are an extinct group of flightless birds formerly endemic to New Zealand. During the Late Pleistocene-Holocene, there were nine species (in six genera). The two largest species, Dinornis robustus and Dinornis novaezelandiae, reached about 3.6 metres (12 ft) in height with neck outstretched, and weighed about 230 kilograms (510 lb) while the smallest, the bush moa (Anomalopteryx didiformis), was around the size of a turkey. Estimates of the moa population when Polynesians settled New Zealand circa 1300 vary between 58,000 and approximately 2.5 million.
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Find out more about the moa from the perspective of the endemic animals of Aotearoa…get your copy of “Peter Little Wing and the Bay of Islands”…COMING SOON!