Moa-nalo

"Moa-nalo" in a Sentence (4 examples)

All of the raptors would have exploited rails, young ibises, and perhaps young moa-nalos, although the eagle was the only one capable of taking adult ibises or moa-nalos.

1996, Amoco Oil Company, Sixth North American Paleontological Convention: Abstracts of Papers, page 194, We obtained a collection of coprolites from Thambetochen chauliodous, one of four species of flightless Hawaiian waterfowl known collectively as moa-nalos.

Moa-nalos did not occur on Hawaii, which was occupied by another herbivore, the Giant Hawaiian Goose.

The moa-nalos are a clade of ducks known from subfossils on the main Hawaiian islands.

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