The Wingless Bird

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Here, a touching scene taking place on the bed, that the camera is clearly not interested in capturing whatsoever, since it’s just focusing on this dresser and fainting couch like they’re going out of style. (In retrospect, this camera was probably right.) a b c d McNab, Brian K. (1994). "Energy Conservation and the Evolution of Flightlessness in Birds". The American Naturalist. 144 (4): 628–642. doi: 10.1086/285697. JSTOR 2462941. S2CID 86511951. Family Emeidae (Bonaparte 1854) [Emeinae Bonaparte 1854; Anomalopterygidae Oliver 1930; Anomalapteryginae Archey 1941] (lesser moa)

Davidson, Janet. "Roger Shepherd Duff". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Gill, B.J. (2007). "Eggshell characteristics of moa eggs (Aves: Dinornithiformes)". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 37 (4): 139–150. Bibcode: 2007JRSNZ..37..139G. doi: 10.1080/03014220709510542. S2CID 85006853. The Secret (2000) with Colin Buchanan, Hannah Yelland, Elizabeth Carling, Clare Higgins, and Stephen Moyer This is a surprisingly simple demise for a Cookson bad guy. Usually Duncan Idaho would have had to slap him so he could fall down a flight of stairs, and then be run over by a car, and then buried in simple syrup, and THEN die.) Huynen, Leon; Gill, Brian J.; Millar, Craig D.; Lambert, David M. (30 August 2010). "Ancient DNA Reveals Extreme Egg Morphology and Nesting Behavior in New Zealand's Extinct Moa". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (30): 16201–16206. Bibcode: 2010PNAS..10716201H. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0914096107. PMC 2941315. PMID 20805485.

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Baker, A.J.; Haddrath, O.; McPherson, J.D.; Cloutier, A. (2014). "Genomic Support for a Moa-Tinamou Clade and Adaptive Morphological Convergence in Flightless Ratites". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31 (7): 1686–1696. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msu153. PMID 24825849. a b Gibbs, George W. (2006). Ghosts of Gondwana: the history of life in New Zealand. Nelson, N.Z.: Craig Potton Pub. ISBN 978-1877333484. OCLC 83611783. The pairs of species of moa described as Euryapteryx curtus / E.exilis, Emeus huttonii / E.crassus, and Pachyornis septentrionalis / P.mappini have long been suggested to constitute males and females, respectively. This has been confirmed by analysis for sex-specific genetic markers of DNA extracted from bone material. [18] However, Agnes doesn’t have time to think about nice, sweet Duncan Idaho and his smokin’-moustached brother. She has a sister to think about, and thanks to Duncan’s advice and it only being 1913, she knows you can sneak away and get an emergency marriage with some forged signatures, so she gets Jessie the Slightly Dim and Robbie the Symbol of the Ambitious but Morally-Upright Lower Class to sneak out under her parents’ noses. Teviotdale D. (1932). "The material culture of the Moa-hunters in Murihiku – 2. Evidence of Zoology". The Journal of the Polynesian Society. 41 (162): 81–120 . Retrieved 3 February 2015.

Tilly Trotter (1999) with Carli Norris, Beth Goddard, Sarah Alexander, Amelia Bullmore, Rosemary Leach and Simon Shepherd Things seem to be quieting down until Duncan gets consumption from living in the damp garrett he moved into to spite his parents. (Actually happens.) Agnes treats him well, and wins his parents’ grudging respect about being totally boss, so they get to be engaged, but eventually Duncan has to go live with a nice family on a farm. Brodkob, Pierce (1963). " Catalogue of fossil birds 1. Archaeopterygiformes through Ardeiformes". Biological Sciences, Bulletin of the Florida State Museum. 7 (4): 180–293 . Retrieved 30 December 2015. Flightless" redirects here. For the record label, see Flightless (record label). Penguins are a well-known example of flightless birds. An Okarito kiwi ( Apteryx rowi), also known as the rowi Ostriches are the largest extant flightless birds as well as the largest extant birds in general. An extinct moa. Until the arrival of humans, New Zealand's only mammals were bats and seals, resulting in many bird species evolving to fill the open niches. While many of New Zealand's flightless birds are now extinct, some, such as the kiwi, kākāpō, weka, and takahē have survived to the present day. A poem a day: The Skeleton of the Great Moa in the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch – Allen Curnow". 25 April 2011. Archived from the original on 1 February 2020.Allentoft, Morten; Nicloas Rawlence (2012). "Moa's ark or volant ghosts of Gondwana? Insights from nineteen years of ancient DNA research on the extinct moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) of New Zealand". Annals of Anatomy. 194 (1): 36–51. doi: 10.1016/j.aanat.2011.04.002. PMID 21596537. a b "Catherine Cookson". www.visitsouthtyneside.co.uk. Archived from the original on 16 January 2018 . Retrieved 15 January 2018. A complete foot of M. didinus found in a cave on Mount Owen near Nelson in the 1980s [79] (currently held by the Museum of New Zealand) Flightless birds are birds that, through evolution, lost the ability to fly. [1] There are over 60 extant species, [2] including the well-known ratites ( ostriches, emus, cassowaries, rheas, and kiwis) and penguins. The smallest flightless bird is the Inaccessible Island rail (length 12.5cm, weight 34.7 g). The largest (both heaviest and tallest) flightless bird, which is also the largest living bird in general, is the ostrich (2.7 m, 156kg).

Tom and Catherine, a musical about the couple's life, was written by local playwright Tom Kelly. It played to sell-out crowds at the Customs House in South Shields. During leave, Reg comes to visit Agnes, because he can’t stand the idea of visiting his parents and pretending everything is okay.Holdaway, Richard; Jacomb, C. (2000). "Rapid Extinction of the Moas (Aves: Dinornithiformes): Model, Test, and Implications". Science. 287 (5461): 2250–2254. Bibcode: 2000Sci...287.2250H. doi: 10.1126/science.287.5461.2250. PMID 10731144.

The complete feathered leg of a M. didinus from Old Man Range in 1894 [77] (currently held by Otago Museum) Worthy, Trevor (1998a). "Quaternary fossil faunas of Otago, South Island, New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 28 (3): 421–521. Bibcode: 1998JRSNZ..28..421W. doi: 10.1080/03014223.1998.9517573. Worthy, Trevor; Holdaway, Richard (1994). "Quaternary fossil faunas from caves in Takaka Valley and on Takaka Hill, northwest Nelson, South Island, New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 24 (3): 297–391. Bibcode: 1994JRSNZ..24..297W. doi: 10.1080/03014223.1994.9517474. Species with certain characteristics are more likely to evolve flightlessness. For example, species that already have shorter wings are more likely to lose flight ability. [22] Some species will evolve flatter wings so that they move more efficiently underwater at the cost of their flight. [23] Additionally, birds that undergo simultaneous wing molt, in which they replace all of the feathers in their wings at once during the year, are more likely to evolve flight loss. [24]Analyses of ancient DNA have determined that a number of cryptic evolutionary lineages occurred in several moa genera. [23] These may eventually be classified as species or subspecies; Megalapteryx benhami (Archey) is synonymised with M.didinus (Owen) because the bones of both share all essential characters. Size differences can be explained by a north–south cline combined with temporal variation such that specimens were larger during the Otiran glacial period (the last ice age in New Zealand). Similar temporal size variation is known for the North Island's Pachyornis mappini. [24] Some of the other size variation for moa species can probably be explained by similar geographic and temporal factors. [25] Agnes: You mean how his parents hate my guts for being middle-class and involved with the whole Shoot-’em-Up Lane thing? Dieffenbach, E. (1843). Travels in New Zealand. Vol.II. London: John Murray. p.195. ISBN 978-1-113-50843-0.