This is no ordinary geocaching trading item!

The Giant Moa is a Discover Me Tag Travel Bug, traveling from geocache to geocache on a very specific mission.

If you do not intend to log your visit on the Geocaching.com web site, please DO NOT TAKE THIS ITEM. Its travels and its progress requires you to log that it is being taken from this geocache. You will also need to log when you place it in another geocache. It's easy!

If you are willing to log your part of this Trackable's journey and place it in another geocache as soon as possible (after you log your find), grab it from this geocache.

My Current Goal:

To get my photo taken in Mauritius, the home of another extinct cousin. But I am more than happy to take the long way there...

In 1505, Portuguese explorers discovered the island of Mauritius and the 20kg flightless Dodos which supplemented their food stores.  Imported pigs, monkeys and rats fed on the Dodo Bird's eggs in their ground nests. The last Dodo was killed in 1681.
 
The moa were eleven species of flightless birds native to New Zealand. The two largest species reached about 3.6m in height and weighed about 230 kg. They were the dominant herbivores in New Zealand's forest and subalpine regions, and until the arrival of the Maori were hunted only by the Haast Eagle, another extinct giant. It is generally considered that most species of moa died out due to over-hunting by Maori around 1820.