Not long ago, the enormous Haast's eagle soared over New Zealand.
Weighing almost 40lbs (18kg) with a wingspan up to ~10ft (3m), they likely feasted on the gigantic moa birds I described in an earlier post. Maori oral tradition also suggests they may have attacked human children.
Most of the large animals vanished from earth. Instead of king-size animals, today we have mini-animals. It's mostly because of human race intervention in killing those large animals in the past few thousand years.
It's thought they didn't do much soaring, but were perch hunters like the American harpy. Their habitat was largely forested in their time. I was lucky enough to find a claw bone of one, and the thought of it punching through moa muscle and pelvis bones was awe inspiring.
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