Extinct kin of the kiwi

The answer

MOA

3 letters. See every clue for this answer on the MOA answer page.

Used 8 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2015; first recorded in 2000. It appears in 5 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for MOA

Every other clue in this collection answered by MOA, most used first.

• Extinct bird - used 176 times, most recently in 2026
• Bygone bird - used 43 times, most recently in 2024
• Extinct New Zealand bird - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
• Extinct flightless bird - used 26 times, most recently in 2022
• Extinct bird of New Zealand - used 19 times, most recently in 2026
• Wingless extinct bird - used 15 times, most recently in 2016
• Extinct New Zealander - used 13 times, most recently in 2023
• Kiwi's extinct cousin - used 12 times, most recently in 2015
• Extinct kiwi relative - used 11 times, most recently in 2017
• Kiwi's extinct kin - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Flightless bird - used 8 times, most recently in 2014
• Bygone big bird - used 7 times, most recently in 2017
• Extinct emu-like bird - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
• Bygone flightless bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2011
• Bygone New Zealand bird - used 6 times, most recently in 2020

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• To the ___ degree - NTH, used 389 times
• In the manner of - ALA, used 367 times

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