September 12, 2024 • 7 mins
NZ Native Bird Week: Haast Eagle
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the day, day day, day day. Yeah, do
do do do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do doo deer. It's been
Native bird week here at fact of the day, and
I couldn't finish n a bird without covering my favorite
(00:21):
New Zealand native bird of all time. But it's extinct. Yeah,
past eagle beautiful otherwise known as tear poor Kai, a
bird of sort of like maldi legend, these cave roarings.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
When did it go extinct?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
About fourteen hundred, okay, about fourteen hundred, when extinct the
moa went extinct. I was hunted for food because it
was a big, fat, delicious bird that was read huge drummies.
Drum the drummies.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
They could even get them out the drive through.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
No no, no, no, you know in the Flintstones when
they have the big roobs and it flips the car.
That was the sort of vibe. Yeah, how big the
moa drummies were. Family pack was just one big drum.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But of course the arrival of Maori ancestors and spread
throughout New Zealand, and it was an easy food source
the old more the morale went extinct, and soon after
the hast eagle fell prey as well, because that was
kind of the thing that it had come to eat. Yeah,
so that didn't have a nonnies drive throw one of them.
They had to eat what was available.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, they did.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So the harst eagle blew in from Australia. Okay, yeah,
so he was about heaps of our birds blew in
from Australia. It makes sense. Yeah, but once they got
here they changed dramatically. A lot of them lost the
ability to well, they didn't lose the ability to fly,
they chose the evolution kind of taught them they didn't
need to fly, especially with the hast eagle in the sky.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I was hiding down here.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So when the hast eagle arrived in its in its
form from Australia, it's sort of like ancestor a weighed
a kilogram. Within a million years, it weighed eighteen kilograms
and is the fastest knowe like example of finding its
ancestor seeing how much it weighed. The migration to a
new area and New Zealand does get big birds because
(02:02):
they didn't have any prey. Yep, like, nothing hunted the
haast eagle. It was the top of the food chain. Wow,
so edges eight eight eight n Nate Nate Moers Andrew's
anything a sheet from one to eighteen kg. Yeah, because
it came in there was just an easy food source
and it started as a scavenger. It would just eat
(02:23):
other smaller birds, and I got bigger and bigger. It
would take to the skies and it would just be
flying with this three meter wide wing wing.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Now, have a think about that three meter wide wings.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
My car isn't even three meters long. Yeah, well you've
got a little car. That's embarrassing. My car. Have a
normal sized car isn't three meters long?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Do you reckon? What is a car that's three meters long?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Like, we don't really measure cars by long, do we,
Unless you're trying to get up fed on the entire islander.
Don't they ask you how big your car is and
you're like, it's I don't know, google it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Everyone knows that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Like if you drive a truck, you know the height
because you gotta got under the bridges and the non strives, which,
by the way've had a couple of seamless mentions.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Ye shows they're seamless.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I don't know I guess you just have to google
Akha and see what the length of.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, how tall am I?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It's like two it's like.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
One in a three quarters of me? Okay, So it
wouldn't be as long as our Santa Fe. The eagle
could go sideways down the Santa Fe and tuck it
and still have a bit of room to hold on. Yeah,
yeah in the windscreen. That wouldn't fit on the roof. God,
it wouldn't fit just on the roof with its wingspan.
An amazing bird. Just can I play a sound for you? Okay,
I'd like to say, play you a sound of what
(03:32):
the wait?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
What they sound like?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So it's stupid go into a radio station?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah? And fourteen hundred?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah no, So this was actually done by some ornithologists.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Is that bird expected?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't know, rphologists, apologists. They took its ancestor and
then they they know what bird larynxes and voice boxes
do when you make them bigger. So it's streams off
they do. And they made it a little bit deeper.
It was on radio in New Zealand. They don't tell
lies at radio.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
They did this with like a mummy, right, and they
got their voice box and they printed at the interent
was like.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It was so bad.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So this is the sound if we can trust radio
in New Zealand. Remember they had the Russian working for them.
That's right. It could be Russian propaganda and they get
down our listeners throats, good way, listen. I would like
a little Russian in you. Oh my god, you would
(04:32):
get outside. Wouldn't even be a morning tea for the
boot waste time.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It'd be like one ration.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
One you can just have one ration to have a
neighborhood of cats. So and also the latest research on
the Heast eagle is that the way it ate it
probably looked more like an eagle with a vulture his head.
Want to see it, how terrifying. So they believe they
hypothesized it had a bald head because they found mower skeletons.
(05:09):
That's some bathins which is like one of our best
areas for fossils and stuff Central Otago that have got
these marks against hip bones and stuff that they said
are so deep that bird's whole head would have needed
to be in so it would grab it. So how
are we get a more as it would grab onto
its back and then use its head as a puncturing
device through their heads organs. It would get into its
(05:31):
liver and liver and it would just put its hooked
nose and and just rip the liver straight out and youm,
yum yum, eat it while it's still fresh. And then
and then would be like, oh, slowly dying. And then
it would hit the ground and it would spend a
couple of days scavenging it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Oh, but we need to issue an apology to everyone
who's got a dog in the car. Oh really, my
friend who's in the car with a little ship poo.
That again wouldn't be a not even a pre bed down.
You played the dog freaking out.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh no, Well that's good though, because it's yeah, everything
else that's you know, wolf like of that dog is gone.
Yeah yeah, members, but there's a prime or something in
the middle of it that knows it's going to keep
an ear up for those somebody see it. That bird
has a wingspread of two Sabrina carpenters. It's like, listen
(06:21):
to the show we were down Sabrina Carpets one fifty
one tool. She's under five for the tool like three meters.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You have said Text of the Week, Taxs of the week, furnature.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Trophy, tournature, trophynature, trophy, miniature for that great another good
text here, someone said to you, then that's impressive. I
evolved from seventy kgs to one hundred and five and
three months and nothing but pizza. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That's evolution.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Evolution is that's evolution. I don't know what even what?
Can I play the sound again for the ship poo
A beautiful bird, the pass eagle, my favorite New Zealand
bird of all time. May it re r I p
rest in peace. Sounded like this.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Here it comes. It's coming in
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Coming from a distance and just coming at hot
Fact of the day, day day, day day. Yeah, do
do do do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do doo deer. It's been
Native bird week here at fact of the day, and
I couldn't finish n a bird without covering my favorite
(00:21):
New Zealand native bird of all time. But it's extinct. Yeah,
past eagle beautiful otherwise known as tear poor Kai, a
bird of sort of like maldi legend, these cave roarings.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
When did it go extinct?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
About fourteen hundred, okay, about fourteen hundred, when extinct the
moa went extinct. I was hunted for food because it
was a big, fat, delicious bird that was read huge drummies.
Drum the drummies.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
They could even get them out the drive through.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
No no, no, no, you know in the Flintstones when
they have the big roobs and it flips the car.
That was the sort of vibe. Yeah, how big the
moa drummies were. Family pack was just one big drum.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
But of course the arrival of Maori ancestors and spread
throughout New Zealand, and it was an easy food source
the old more the morale went extinct, and soon after
the hast eagle fell prey as well, because that was
kind of the thing that it had come to eat. Yeah,
so that didn't have a nonnies drive throw one of them.
They had to eat what was available.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, they did.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So the harst eagle blew in from Australia. Okay, yeah,
so he was about heaps of our birds blew in
from Australia. It makes sense. Yeah, but once they got
here they changed dramatically. A lot of them lost the
ability to well, they didn't lose the ability to fly,
they chose the evolution kind of taught them they didn't
need to fly, especially with the hast eagle in the sky.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
I was hiding down here.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So when the hast eagle arrived in its in its
form from Australia, it's sort of like ancestor a weighed
a kilogram. Within a million years, it weighed eighteen kilograms
and is the fastest knowe like example of finding its
ancestor seeing how much it weighed. The migration to a
new area and New Zealand does get big birds because
(02:02):
they didn't have any prey. Yep, like, nothing hunted the
haast eagle. It was the top of the food chain. Wow,
so edges eight eight eight n Nate Nate Moers Andrew's
anything a sheet from one to eighteen kg. Yeah, because
it came in there was just an easy food source
and it started as a scavenger. It would just eat
(02:23):
other smaller birds, and I got bigger and bigger. It
would take to the skies and it would just be
flying with this three meter wide wing wing.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Now, have a think about that three meter wide wings.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
My car isn't even three meters long. Yeah, well you've
got a little car. That's embarrassing. My car. Have a
normal sized car isn't three meters long?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
Do you reckon? What is a car that's three meters long?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
Like, we don't really measure cars by long, do we,
Unless you're trying to get up fed on the entire islander.
Don't they ask you how big your car is and
you're like, it's I don't know, google it.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Everyone knows that.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Like if you drive a truck, you know the height
because you gotta got under the bridges and the non strives, which,
by the way've had a couple of seamless mentions.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Ye shows they're seamless.
Speaker 1 (03:02):
I don't know I guess you just have to google
Akha and see what the length of.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Well, how tall am I?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
It's like two it's like.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
One in a three quarters of me? Okay, So it
wouldn't be as long as our Santa Fe. The eagle
could go sideways down the Santa Fe and tuck it
and still have a bit of room to hold on. Yeah,
yeah in the windscreen. That wouldn't fit on the roof. God,
it wouldn't fit just on the roof with its wingspan.
An amazing bird. Just can I play a sound for you? Okay,
I'd like to say, play you a sound of what
(03:32):
the wait?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
What they sound like?
Speaker 1 (03:36):
So it's stupid go into a radio station?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Yeah? And fourteen hundred?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Yeah no, So this was actually done by some ornithologists.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Is that bird expected?
Speaker 1 (03:47):
I don't know, rphologists, apologists. They took its ancestor and
then they they know what bird larynxes and voice boxes
do when you make them bigger. So it's streams off
they do. And they made it a little bit deeper.
It was on radio in New Zealand. They don't tell
lies at radio.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
They did this with like a mummy, right, and they
got their voice box and they printed at the interent
was like.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
It was so bad.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
So this is the sound if we can trust radio
in New Zealand. Remember they had the Russian working for them.
That's right. It could be Russian propaganda and they get
down our listeners throats, good way, listen. I would like
a little Russian in you. Oh my god, you would
(04:32):
get outside. Wouldn't even be a morning tea for the
boot waste time.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
It'd be like one ration.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
One you can just have one ration to have a
neighborhood of cats. So and also the latest research on
the Heast eagle is that the way it ate it
probably looked more like an eagle with a vulture his head.
Want to see it, how terrifying. So they believe they
hypothesized it had a bald head because they found mower skeletons.
(05:09):
That's some bathins which is like one of our best
areas for fossils and stuff Central Otago that have got
these marks against hip bones and stuff that they said
are so deep that bird's whole head would have needed
to be in so it would grab it. So how
are we get a more as it would grab onto
its back and then use its head as a puncturing
device through their heads organs. It would get into its
(05:31):
liver and liver and it would just put its hooked
nose and and just rip the liver straight out and youm,
yum yum, eat it while it's still fresh. And then
and then would be like, oh, slowly dying. And then
it would hit the ground and it would spend a
couple of days scavenging it.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Oh, but we need to issue an apology to everyone
who's got a dog in the car. Oh really, my
friend who's in the car with a little ship poo.
That again wouldn't be a not even a pre bed down.
You played the dog freaking out.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Oh no, Well that's good though, because it's yeah, everything
else that's you know, wolf like of that dog is gone.
Yeah yeah, members, but there's a prime or something in
the middle of it that knows it's going to keep
an ear up for those somebody see it. That bird
has a wingspread of two Sabrina carpenters. It's like, listen
(06:21):
to the show we were down Sabrina Carpets one fifty
one tool. She's under five for the tool like three meters.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
You have said Text of the Week, Taxs of the week, furnature.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Trophy, tournature, trophynature, trophy, miniature for that great another good
text here, someone said to you, then that's impressive. I
evolved from seventy kgs to one hundred and five and
three months and nothing but pizza. It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
That's evolution.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Evolution is that's evolution. I don't know what even what?
Can I play the sound again for the ship poo
A beautiful bird, the pass eagle, my favorite New Zealand
bird of all time. May it re r I p
rest in peace. Sounded like this.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Here it comes. It's coming in
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Coming from a distance and just coming at hot
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