Fun Fact: The Haast’s Eagle has a short wingspan for a bird of its size. This is common in forest eagles, such as the Harpy or Philippines Eagle. This allows the birds to easily move through dense forests without any trouble.

@kizgintosbaga

2 ай бұрын

at one side you ruined already amazing animal, at the other side its really interesting fact. i am torn apart :)

@FirstDagger

2 ай бұрын

@@kizgintosbaga Watch videos of Harpy Eagles and other Birds of Prey flying through woods, you will soon change your mind to be completely on board with such an interesting observation.

@kizgintosbaga

2 ай бұрын

@@FirstDagger i do watch them. i live in mountains and some of us have them and i draw them, draw their bones, draw the bones of ancient ones. etc. they mesmerize me.

@dolsopolar

2 ай бұрын

⁠@@kizgintosbagaruined what?

@skyhigh9474

2 ай бұрын

On these lines this bird would have been much wider if not from forests. There might be such birds to be discovered but this particular one is no small eagle and much larger than any today. From your theory though it's much powerful for a 3metre wingspan of a bird.

One of the great tragedies of NZ's history is to see all of these amazing birds gone. Image what it would be like for NZ tourism to have even more of our endemic birds left to be alive today. Not just the eagle but the moa and the many other species that have gone. If only we had some viable DNA to bring some of them back from the dead. Thanks for loading this here.

@cloudymoon2494

2 жыл бұрын

I discovered the existence of the haast eagle today and my heart is still pounding like crazy - out of sheer exitement and surprise. Imagine all the animals and plants we have lost just by discovering new horizons and finding new continents! I would give all of my belongings just to see those animals - that our ancestors have brought to extinction without even to realise!

@et34t34fdf

2 жыл бұрын

All is not lost, as some of these birds went extinct not that far back in time, we might be able to get enough DNA together to clone them back to life, we already have some DNA, we just need more.

@kingy002

2 жыл бұрын

@@et34t34fdf My understanding was that it was not viable DNA. I am just a person with a wish and have no knowledge of the science. No doubt things are moving on though in that realm of science. What do we feed them on when they come back? With Moa, and larger species of birds, gone, they would have to predate on something. We would be better to focus on the herbivores, like the Moa, into the future.

@et34t34fdf

2 жыл бұрын

@@kingy002 Yeah, probably, Moa is a fligthless herbivore, much less problematic than Haast Eagle, which is a dangerous predator, that can fly.

@kingy002

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dr-doom007 Ultracrepidarian!

“We should’ve believed the old histories in the first place.” This still rings true for so much.

@AHD2105

10 ай бұрын

Sad the Moa were hunted to extinction. Even earrly Australians knew not to do this. Brutes were in charge clearly over and above the wise.

@chir0pter

3 ай бұрын

@@AHD2105 What? The Aborigines were just as bad. Incredible and ancient lineages of life were extinguished by humans on that continent.

@karlharrison2449

2 ай бұрын

When Europeans arrived Maori had no knowledge of the Moa. I would take these stories with a grain of salt.

@chir0pter

2 ай бұрын

@@karlharrison2449 because the Maori had no written language and they burned out & devoured all the moa within a short period after landing.

@Kivikesku

2 ай бұрын

@@karlharrison2449 Indeed. If scientists believed all the old histories, then we'd believe in all sorts of silly things, like unicorns, cyclops, werewolves and flat earth.

The Haast’s Eagle, the Moa, the Elephant Bird, the Dodo, and the Thylacine are among the most recent of extinct animals I hope we may some day be able to bring back through Science!

@veryunusual126

Жыл бұрын

How about trying to PRESERVE the endangered animals we have today, instead of trying to bring back what's gone already??

@dodoxasaurus6904

5 ай бұрын

@@veryunusual126 100%

@nafvol5053

3 ай бұрын

@@veryunusual126 how about doing both?

@veryunusual126

3 ай бұрын

@@nafvol5053 no, because preserving is easier, dammit, we messed up way too much already

@deinsilverdrac8695

2 ай бұрын

​@@veryunusual126 And bringing back what we destroyed can help preserve what is dammaged Anyway

I would love to see giant moa and giant Haast's Eagle 🦅 in action In real life. Man!

@Engifarting456

2 ай бұрын

Thank the maoris

@matimus100

24 күн бұрын

You love really easy 😅

When the New zealand animals actually are more like final fantasy and lord of the rings.

@ariaaaaaa

Жыл бұрын

aotearoa*

@Dragon-Slay3r

Жыл бұрын

One of the hand Wing curve? Thanks commenter

@cheeks7050

2 ай бұрын

@@ariaaaaaa Shut up

Can’t believe it hunted Moa.. those things weighed like 600lbs.

@eybaza6018

Жыл бұрын

The sheer force from the air impact as well as Moa being very slow and unadapted to counter predators, it make sense.

@beastmaster0934

Жыл бұрын

Not all Moa were that large, some were smaller, some where about the size of a modern turkey, others were around the size of a modern emu.

@eybaza6018

Жыл бұрын

@@beastmaster0934 I know i am only reffering to the larger species like Dinornis.

@tommaggi1475

Жыл бұрын

@@eybaza6018I was thinking if the Haast’s Eagle was able to take down 12 foot tall 600 pound Giant Moas imagine what they would do to humans. Scary to think about

@eybaza6018

Жыл бұрын

@@tommaggi1475 Its actually a pretty short anwser,instant death.

That painting legit looks like a Talonflame.

2:06 - 2:13 The eagle and moa shadows in Tim Burton, Phil Tibbet, or Ray Harryhausen style.

Legends/folklore come from truths.

Take into consideration folks. Were talking about a bird that was anywhere between 3-4ft in length. Weighed about 40lbs and had a max wingspan of nearly 10ft. After 40yrs in the avian field dealing with everything from warblers to birds of prey. I can't say i ever came close to a bird of prey matching this raptor's size. But i can tell you one that exists to this day that would rival it's strength. That being the Harpy Eagle. When i traveled to South America i watched this eagle kill sloths and monkeys right off trees. When i went to Africa it's equivalent in strength was there being the Martial Eagle. These two are some of the strongest birds of prey we have living today. Far stronger than a Bald or Golden Eagle. Steller's Sea Eagles are also large raptors but are mainly fish eaters like Bald Eagles are. So this eagle they are talking about would have definitely ruled the skies if still alive today. Such a beautifully preserved specimen on display in this video.

@user-rs8ky8hv6s

3 күн бұрын

And fun fact: Haast's Eagle had the largest increase in weight overall of any vertebrate animal over the course of its existence, likely owing to the size of its prey and the lack of competition from other predators, meaning it could eat as much as it wanted to.

“We should have believed the oral histories to begin with” no, the moral of the story is to question everything until you have proof in your hand.

Great stuff, friend! Excited to see where we go from here!

To this day this was the largest predator to ever exist on New Zealand.

In addition to the Haast eagle New Zealand also had a massive harrier the size of most eagles of today.

@slwrabbits

4 күн бұрын

What is it called? Would like to read up on it!

It would have been fantastic beyond words!

I thought the eagle was named Frank.

I think the year was probably 1995/6 that around five of us (all children) plays on an open field. Above us an eagle was flying around in circle. Then we all look up for a while when the eagle suddenly diving down towards us just like they used to hunt their prey. There when the eagle reached about 5-6 foot above us it suddenly stop and fly away. That eagle was also a big one.

Amazing!

I also need to add in the Wedge-Tailed Eagle. Another currently living giant raptor of Australia and New Guinea. Wingspans of 9ft and body lengths a little over 3ft are not uncommon for this species.

i wonder how much bigger and stronger for it needs to actually be able to carry full grown humans?

@reversenoobz1

Жыл бұрын

There was one of them named Pouäkai that did kill women, children and men, and flew off with their corpses.

@Skyypixelgamer

Жыл бұрын

Well eagles can usually carry around half of their body weight max with out favorable wind. So for the average 160 pound person around 320 pounds.

@sdqsdq6274

2 ай бұрын

does it need to carry thou ? if thats the size of the talons , they have no issue mauling a full grown human to death

@ahyeyeye6749

Ай бұрын

There are videos on YT of eagles carrying off wolves then dropping them I think...either way, a fairly substantial mammal! These eagles were more than twice as big... Scaling it up, I think as a conservative guess they'd be able to carry off children long distance, and - with their momentum and power - be able to carry small adults short distances before dropping them.

@ahyeyeye6749

Ай бұрын

There are videos on YT of eagles carrying off wolves then dropping them I think...either way, a fairly substantial mammal! These eagles were more than twice as big... Scaling it up, I think as a conservative guess they'd be able to carry off children long distance, and - with their momentum and power - be able to carry small adults short distances before dropping them.

Loved that closing comment. It's not the only time the oral histories of the Maori were ignored without any rational reason for it. When a white kid from the U.S. knows that, it's pretty bad, considering how full my hands already are with the dark parts of our own history.

thanks david

>Doesn't mention why the Moa went extinct

@craybro

2 ай бұрын

Yes, modern scholars and bureaucrats believe we must only romanticise Māori history and never critique it

@BigJFindAWay

2 ай бұрын

All human groups sent species to extinction not just the Māori.

@chir0pter

2 ай бұрын

@@BigJFindAWay let’s not pretend they had any special connection to or stewardship of the land they reached only a few hundred years before Europeans then, and devastated it in that short while. It also would have made sense to say why the moa went extinct in the context of this video

@slamyourheadin9449

2 ай бұрын

@@chir0pterbecause Europeans are so innocent when it comes to killing off entire species of animals… They treated the American buffalo so well…

@chir0pter

2 ай бұрын

@@slamyourheadin9449 "By the 1830s the Comanche and their allies on the southern plains were killing about 280,000 bison a year, which was near the limit of sustainability for that region. Firearms and horses, along with a growing export market for buffalo robes and bison meat had resulted in larger and larger numbers of bison killed each year. A long and intense drought hit the southern plains in 1845, lasting into the 1860s, which caused a widespread collapse of the bison herds.[83]" " **Twenty thousand years ago, North America had a more impressive array of big mammals than Africa does today; by 10,000 years ago, 34 genera of these mammals were gone, including the 10 species that weighed more than a ton.** " Guess who was here between 20,000 and 10,000 years ago

Some tribesmen has a head out there. Please bring this raptor back.

The Ultimate Eagle.

So.. a real life talonflame?

Oral history is very strong. The Aborigines also talked about Drop bears i.e. Marsupial lion.

1:33 Maybe Richard Hammond

This cantonese bird would screech "pokkai!" whenever it dropped its prey in midflight.

That thing could fly a Hobbit to Mordor.

@worganfreeman2694

2 ай бұрын

THEY'RE TAKING THE HOBBITS TO ISENGARD TO ISENGARD TO ISENGARD

Currently, the Andean Condor is the largest flying bird in the world (it terms of average size). Yet the Haast Eagle was larger. And given the fact the it was a predatory bird, it’s no wonder that the Māori were terrified of the Haast Eagle. 🦅

One of the world's largest Eagles, how interesting

The sound guy really liked that skreech huh?

Condor: fuck. They telling me not even the skies were clear?...man talk about "mass extraction"

A newspaper from late 1800s features story of a hunter that has shot 3 "giant hawks" I can remember no other details I will have to see if internet has any info.

I wonder that it would have eschewed distance flying do to how much effort get its mass moving. A object at rest and all that.

@averycheesypotato

2 ай бұрын

It had relatively short wings for its size, as do modern eagles suited to living in densely forested areas. It would have to have been relatively agile to hunt in such an environment

Amazing. How did it lift a 100kg+ bird like moa up in the air after killing it😮

@NXrevolution18

Ай бұрын

It didn't need to, there were no other large predator or scavengers on the island so they could leave their kills in the open. Same reason why Moas would lay their eggs on the ground unprotected.

Those talons look small compared to the Harpy Eagle's 10-12 cm. (4-5 inch) talons and legs as thick as a man's wrist.

Do the native inhabitants of those islands have any stories, art, drawings, models of these magnificent raptors

National geo graphic measured it to a length of 22ft. Sth island tribe had a skeleton of 33ft 3mtr is what 9ft such an injustice to the hokioi

And just like almost all amazing megafuana hominds hunted them to extinction...

@user-rs8ky8hv6s

3 күн бұрын

We truly are the most dangerous creature ever to evolve. A living blight upon the world, should we so choose.

Any particular reason that you didn’t state that Māori over predation of moa caused both the Mos and the Haast eagle to go extinct?

@dolsopolar

2 ай бұрын

probably because everyone already knew that cuz that's literally what these birds are known for just like dodo

@jenjen.rutherford8559

2 ай бұрын

No way , maori don't destroy the environment ...if they do its the fault of colonization

@procrastinator41

2 ай бұрын

⁠I’m sure it was not intentional, but the giant eagles were gone centuries before Europeans arrived. People, any people, bring ecological change with them. Dogs, pigs, rats, over-hunting. That’s why only the kiwi remained when Cook arrived. Same in Madagascar, Hawaii, the Americas, Australia. Lots of animals (and plants) that couldn’t make it in the presence of Humans and their ‘fellow travelers’. Europeans brought new waves of environmental damage. Indigenous people were affected by European contact as their ancestor’s arrivals had affected the pristine environments they found.

@craybro

2 ай бұрын

@@jenjen.rutherford8559 lol, you just proved my point. Maori history shouldn't be romaticised, it should be an honest account just like colonial history. By the way, moa and the haast eagle went extinct before colonisation.

@_d--

2 ай бұрын

​@@jenjen.rutherford8559 humans are deadly predators and the most dangerous animal on the planet. There is no need to change the past to accomodate modern "moralities". Nature did its course that's all

That bird must have such a savagery 👹 history

Could have had the largest eagle as your national animal... But you went for the kiwi... Friggin New Zealand, can't do anything right.

Was Haast eagle fearsome

@eybaza6018

Жыл бұрын

Deffinetly, had the balls to hunt even the Giant South Island Moa and early Maori settelers.

Modern eagles can carry a child, deer, goat and sheep!

I wish the Pouakai were our national bird. 😊 Who chose the Kiwi? Even the Kia or the Moa.

@user-vq5bs9fr2e

2 ай бұрын

Ikr

@sdqsdq6274

2 ай бұрын

and whats wrong with kiwi ? at least they survive extinction .... lol

@AHD2105

2 ай бұрын

@@sdqsdq6274 Ther are now more Kiwi pairs than black billed seagulls, which is great, but actually the black billed gulls are recovering now too. Just there are more birds than just our Kiwi. Sad we lost the Moa and The Haast Eagle.

Are they the same bird species as the ¨ Haast´s Eagle ¨ ?.

@jk22222sd

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Same bird.

@grahamstrouse1165

Жыл бұрын

Yup.

@himalayan8315

Жыл бұрын

Yep, Pouakai.

@user-rs8ky8hv6s

3 күн бұрын

Yes.

I think you're sadly mistaken that it "blew off coarse"... did 100 others "blow off coarse too"?.... maybe the lands were earlier to reach when the water level was lower

I just watched a video asking the question, was Audubon's Washington Eagle real or a hoax. And now KZread shows me this. Any thoughts on the Washington Eagle?

Didn't get blown over, lands were connected

I’m positive they’re still alive. I’ve witnessed something a decade ago, high in the sky, during a moon lit night, flapping massive wings. I’m an atheist and all my friends know i don’t mess around with myths and legends and ghosts and whatnot, so when I told them about it, most of them believed me. I even closed my eyes and refocused them to the clouds to see if I was seeing an illusion but I ended up sighting it again as I opened my eyes. It was flying in one direction, and just as I refocused and saw it again, it switched direction back to the way it came, and I kept my eyes on it until it disappeared into the distance, but I tell you, something massive was in the sky, flapping its wings like a dragon from movies, and I’m convinced we have something unseen flying above us during the night

@_d--

2 ай бұрын

"i'm an atheist" makes you lose your point from the start mate. Agnostic is the word

@skmk88

2 ай бұрын

@@_d-- really couldn’t care less how you take it, I said what I said

this bird is very interesting like how it hunted and how i would kill

Honestly it’s a little bigger than a bald eagle

Could of been bigger ones, who knows how big they got to

Harpy looks bigger

I thought the bird's name was Frank

Wonder what other unbelievable folklore were factual

I always ask myself why did we do this our culture would have been a whole lot stronger now we are the only natives in the world without an eagle companion.

The. Haast’s eagle was the Te Hokkoi bird and the Pouakai was another kind of a much much larger giant eagle

@Skyypixelgamer

Жыл бұрын

The names seem interchangeable from what I can tell, plus with the fact there was a second large bird of prey that’s was smaller then the haast on the island being the Eyles harrier. I won’t say this is fact as I’m not a person of maori descent so take this with a grain of salt.

@himalayan8315

Жыл бұрын

Te hokioi and Pouakai, so majestic 🙌

@chir0pter

3 ай бұрын

@@Skyypixelgamer who cares what the Maori called it. They caused its extinction anyway.

@Skyypixelgamer

3 ай бұрын

@@chir0pter So should we not care about other extinction/ endangered species names because some people caused their extinction and also named them? No, because that’s what we need in order to tell people about them. Plus why shouldn’t we care about what the people who lived with the animals called them its culture and it shouldn’t just be wiped up under the rug. Saying we shouldn’t care about what the Haast was called is like saying we shouldn’t care about the names of Norse,Greek or any other god as both had about the same importance in those people’s cultures. I’m not saying you have to care but I don’t see why we shouldn’t.

@chir0pter

3 ай бұрын

@@Skyypixelgamer Haast's eagle is a fine name. I don't care to litigate what some invasive human population who caused its extinction called it.

Harpy Eagles have four inch Talons, double the size of the ones they are showing.

@Luca-bj3cq

2 ай бұрын

They have shown only the bone, without the ceratinous sheath. The talons on the bird would have been much much larger. The mere bones of the harpy are quite a bit smaller than the bones shown in the video.

@robertmclean9737

2 ай бұрын

@@Luca-bj3cq I see. Harpies have huge oversize feet for their size.

The time to believe something is when you have EVIDENCE, not because of old stories like the giant fish your grandpa caught.

Doesn't look that big to me 🤨🤷🏻‍♂️...

Bloons doesn’t lie 😂

Size is growth in relation to the physical dementions of the environment, it has nothing to do with what one eats. Height and Weight(wing span and physical presence) is formed by the Nest, interior of the home(what ever tree, cave, or sidewalls). There is a possibility of a much larger bird alive today, if a place demanded its growth to fill that space. This means many tightly grouped=small and few far spaced=large, one of a kind from a never ending expanisveness could be 35 ft wingspan. Don't doubt generous reports, like the guy said, people in Europe did not belive the reports, well today there are limitations on cameras field of view, so continue to listen to 1st person reports. If there is an area off limits, or "sedated" uneducated locals in the dark, I bet there is a massive raptor, a big bird, a birdman condor there, think upper plateau and bald mt, where Giants walk today, birds never stop growing every single year of their life, they keep growing and growing, and growing. Peace.

So jadayu from Ramayana could be true

My uncle name is Frank

This was the plan? Looks close but nope

It’s interesting that we live at the same time as the blue whale, the largest animal in history. Yet in the past all of the land predators were so big

The Haast's Eagle made the grave mistake of targeting small/young humans as prey. Would've been easy for the Maori to track the adults to the nests, kill the young/eggs and eventually hunt/trap the adults as well. That, along with the loss of the Moa, resulted in its swift extinction.

@user-rs8ky8hv6s

3 күн бұрын

I........don't think that's what happened. At all.

Idk what cm and kg are……

@eybaza6018

Жыл бұрын

There are websites that convert it to Imperial.

Oral history is a great place to start and well, well worth studying. But we shouldnt believe them...if thats true, go make a short about Pegasus or the Golden Fleece.

Haast Eagle

@himalayan8315

Жыл бұрын

Pouakai.

What about the harpy eagle

@user-rs8ky8hv6s

3 күн бұрын

It's still smaller.

World's largest eagle's Talon is seems smallest 😅,like anything

Some of today's asian eagles also sometimes attempt to snatch small children.

No gloves?! I thought the oils on the human hand had a negative effect on preservation. Great video, though. 😊

Doesn't look as big as they make it out to be. Kinda small

The way of the dodo by bad religion or slowly going the way of the buffalo by mxpx

wtf maoris are the one who over hunted moa and cause the extinction to haast eagle

I wish they could bring back all these awesome giant birds! 🦖🪽🪶

✨🐥✨ 👶❤️

If they de extinct the moa they should de extinct this too To control it

@InternetDarkLord

2 ай бұрын

Yes, tourists could feed them..............literally.

I seen a bigger native new Zealand bird that needs protection asap the manu ariki its real and they are back they fly at night 20 ft wingspan the size of a bus I saw it about a year ago I swear its the truth I know were it is. help sos

Moa means chicken and if you see us hori māori at KFC then you’ll understand why big bird was shoved in the forever box.

@chir0pter

3 ай бұрын

Maori indeed were a plague on the NZ environment.

Imagine running around with your friends one day then out of nowhere you get picked up by an eagle, dropped from an extreme height killing you from fall damage then it comes to collect its meal flies back into some tree far away from anyone and eats you 👀

@user-rs8ky8hv6s

3 күн бұрын

That.......would never happen. WTF?

The Haast's Eagle (Harpagornis moorei) is an extinct eagle species that inhabited New Zealand, it was one of the largest eagles that ever lived, its closest known relative is the Mather's Eagle (Dynatoaetus gaffae) and the closest living relatives of both species are the Pygmy Eagle (Australotriorchis weiskei), the Little Eagle (Australotriorchis morphnoides), the Gurney's Eagle (Gigantotriorchis gurneyi), and the Wedge-Tailed Eagle (Gigantotriorchis audax), all these species are members of a unique tribe of true eagles known as Gigantotriorchidini, which is exclusively native to Oceania, this tribe was once more diverse containing many eagle species native to Oceania, many eagle species in the Gigantotriorchidini tribe have been known to take on large prey.

"We should have believed the oral histories." -- Evidence is best.

Imagine a bird 5 times larger, AT LEAST and then you are in montana USA, go upper plateau usa, we got it goin on, always have been, and I can talk, but they do not. It freely flies and is gigantic.

So that’s where Peter Jackson got the idea of using the eagles in the lord of the rings and the Hobbit. Tolkien and c.s Lewis we’re both good friends they are both very cleaver authors.

@goodputin4324

5 ай бұрын

PJ got the idea? What are you blabbering about?

@chir0pter

3 ай бұрын

It was in the books...

False. The Washington Sea Eagle was the largest in the world

@romazone101

2 ай бұрын

Wow! Just watched The History Guy's video on this subject and I believe Audubon's depiction was credible. The Washington eagle had(s) a 10 foot wing span and might still be alive today.

I notice that nobody laments the fact the matives WIPED this bird out. Interesting double standard

The claws are called talons. I call them talons (claws) then it comes to birds of prey.

Never existed all lies.

Well looks like Australia just trumped NZ in the eagles game with a ten foot wingspan eagle. Which makes sense because Australia had Genyornis or Thunderbird, which were Australia's moa, and before that the terror duck roamed the land. Pouaki is probably the same bird maybe, just flew between Australia and NZ?

@gozogo1233

Жыл бұрын

Haast eagles were evolved Australian eagles, so it is possible that one flew across the Tasman

@Ozraptor4

11 ай бұрын

Dynatoaetus gaffae was substantially smaller than an adult female Hieraaetus moorei. The two had comparable wingspans, but the NZ bird had proportionally shorter wings and bigger body so was probably about 50% heavier than the Aussie.

@indyreno2933

8 ай бұрын

Actually, the scientific name of the haast's eagle is Harpagornis moorei, also, the Mather's Eagle (Dynatoaetus gaffae) was much bigger than the haast's eagle, thus making the mather's eagle the largest eagle that ever lived.

Praise the LORD for creating the Haast eagle!

@Secretlyanothername

24 күн бұрын

*Of the Rings

That's why when the Maori bang on about how oppressed they are by British colonialism, remind them they weren't just cannibals and slavers, they also wiped out several unique species of animals.

When people think animals are extinct they migrated somewhere else animals are not dumb they have found 40,000 plus creatures they thought were extinct but found them in remote areas on the opposite side of the planet or around uninhabited islands

Thanks Maori

@user-rs8ky8hv6s

3 күн бұрын

Such horrible people.