The takahe, with its striking blue-green plumage and stout, prehistoric build, is a flightless bird found only in New Zealand. Once abundant across both the North and South Islands, the bird’s ...

Moa—large, flightless, ostrich-like birds—once roamed around New Zealand. But humans hunted ... fruiting bodies that grow in shades of blue, pink and purple—and to moa, which were known ...

The bird was named "4BBRW" for the colored identification rings on its legs, stacked blue, blue ... I need to start veering or I will miss New Zealand,’" Conklin stated. Scientists were in ...