What is South Island giant moa?
{{speciesbox | fossil_range = Late [[Holocene]] | name = South Island giant moa | image = Dinornis robustus, South Island Giant Moa - three quarter view on black YORYM 2004 20.jpg | image_caption = Skeleton | status = EX | genus = Dinornis | species = robustus | authority = ([[Richard Owen|Owen]], 1846)<ref>{{cite web |author=Checklist Committee [[Ornithological Society of New Zealand]] |date=2010 |title=Checklist-of-Birds of New Zealand, Norfolk and Macquarie Islands and the Ross Dependency Antarctica |url=http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/sites/all/files/checklist/Checklist-of-Birds.pdf |publisher=Te Papa Press |volume= |issue= |pages= |access-date=4 January 2016 |archive-date=16 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616090545/http://nzbirdsonline.org.nz/sites/all/files/checklist/Checklist-of-Birds.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> | synonyms={{collapsible list|bullets = true|title=<small>List</small> |''Dinornis ingens'' var. ''robustus'' Owen, 1846 |''Palapteryx robustus'' (Owen 1846) Owen 1851a |''Dinornis maximus'' Haast 1869 |''Dinornis altus'' Owen 1879 |''Dinornis validus'' Hutton 1891 |''Dinornis potens'' Hutton 1891 |''Dinornis strenuus'' Hutton 1893 |''Dinornis torosus'' Hutton 1891 |''Palapteryx plenus'' Hutton 1891 }} }} The '''South Island giant moa''' (''Dinornis robustus'') was a type of [[moa]]. It only lived in [[New Zealand]]. It could not fly.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49260053|title=Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia.|last=Grzimek|first=Bernhard|date=2003–2004|publisher=Gale|others=Neil Schlager, Donna Olendorf, American Zoo and Aquarium Association|isbn=0-7876-5362-4|edition=2nd|location=Detroit|oclc=49260053}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} [[Category:Moa]] {{Biology-stub}}