Pouakai (volcano)
Pouakai or Pouākai may refer to: * Pouākai, a monstrous bird in Māori mythology * Haast's Eagle, an extinct bird of New Zealand * Pouākai Range, an eroded, extinct volcano on the northern flank of Mount Taranaki Mount Taranaki (), officially Taranaki Maunga and also known as Mount Egmont, is a dormant stratovolcano in the Taranaki region on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. At , it is the second highest mountain in the North Island, afte ...

Pouākai
The (also spelled ) is a monstrous bird in Māori mythology. Mythologies In some of these legends, the Pouākai kills and eats humans. The myth may refer to the real but now extinct Haast's eagle: the largest known eagle species, which was able to kill an adult moa weighing up to , and which potentially had the capability to kill a small child. History Haast's eagles, which lived only in the east and northwest of New Zealand's South Island The South Island ( , 'the waters of Pounamu, Greenstone') is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand by surface area, the others being the smaller but more populous North Island and Stewart Island. It is bordered to the north by ..., did not become extinct until around two hundred years after the arrival of Māori people, Māori. Eagles are depicted in early rock-shelter paintings in South Canterbury. Large amounts of the eagle's lowland habitat had been destroyed by burning by AD 1350, and it was driven extinct by ...
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Harpagornis
Haast's eagle (''Hieraaetus moorei'') is an extinct species of eagle that lived in the South Island of New Zealand, commonly accepted to be the of Māori mythology.Giant eagle (''Aquila moorei''), Haast's eagle, or Pouakai
. Museum of New Zealand: Te Papa Tongarewa. Retrieved 27 October 2010. It is the largest eagle known to have existed, with an estimated weight of , compared to the next-largest and extant (''Harpia harpyja''), at up to . Its massive size is explained as an evolutionary response to the size of its

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