Haast’s eagle was the largest eagle known to have existed, with an estimated weight of 15 kilograms. Its massive size is explained as an evolutionary response to the size of its prey, the flightless moa. The species became extinct around 1400, after the moa were hunted to extinction by the first Māori.
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Haast’s eagle was the largest eagle known to have existed, with an estimated weight of 15 kilograms. Its massive size is explained as an evolutionary response to the size of its prey, the flightless moa. The species became extinct around 1400, after the moa were hunted to extinction by the first Māori. DNA analysis later showed that this bird is related most closely to the much smaller little eagle as well as the booted eagle and not, as previously thought, to the large wedge-tailed eagle. The largest extant eagles, none of which are verified to exceed 9 kg in a wild state, are about forty percent smaller in body size than Haast’s eagles. They had a relatively short wingspan for their size, estimated that the grown female typically spanned up to 2.
6 m, possibly up to 3 m in a few cases. Short wings may have aided Haast’s eagles when hunting in the dense scrubland and forests of New Zealand. Some living eagles permit direct comparison with the harpy eagle, and the Steller’s sea eagle are the most powerful and powerful eagles in the world. In comparison, the largest beaks of eagles today reach a little more than 7cm out of a top length of 14 cm ; the longest tarsal measurements out of the top of the eagle’s tarsus are around 11cm out. A lower mandible from the lower mandibles measured 11 cm and the tarsi measured 4 cm out from the top of the eagle in several cases. The top of its eagle’s top mandible measured 11.5 cm out of a total length of 22 to 24 cm.
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