Talk:Adzebill

A fact from Adzebill appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 14 March 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the flightless adzebill was a large predatory bird that lived in New Zealand, and was initially thought to be a kind of moa?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/March.

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What does subsitute mean? GrahamBould 19:22, 19 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

To avoid confusion for later readers: substitute was misspelt in the BirdTalk template above. I've fixed it. -- Avenue 00:25, 20 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I hadn't seen a reference to a Maori name for the adzebill before, and wonder what the source of that is. I don't think it's in any of the references cited. Mike | Giantflightlessbirds 08:00, 3 April 2011 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Giantflightlessbirds (talk • contribs)

2011 DNA study

Seems like this paper might shed some light on affinities, but I don't have access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790311003411 FunkMonk (talk) 15:16, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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