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- Hakawai, also Hōkioi in the North Island, was to the New Zealand Māori people, a mythological bird that was sometimes heard but not usually seen. It is...
- Hakawai can refer to: Hakawai (genus), an extinct monotypic genus of prehistoric birds with the species Hakawai melvillei Hakawai (mythology), to the...
- The Hakawai. Notornis 35(3): 215–216. PDF fulltext Archived 2008-10-17 at the Wayback Machine Miskelly, Colin M. (1987): The identity of the hakawai. Notornis...
- Hakawai is an extinct genus of prehistoric birds that lived during the early Miocene to middle Miocene in New Zealand. According to a 2015 paper, Hakawai...
- described in many legends of the Māori mythology, under the names pouākai, Hakawai, or Hōkioi in the North Island. According to an account given to Sir George...
- ducks, and flightless geese, were hunted to extinction at the same time. Hakawai Folk memory Haast's eagle Rodgers, Paul (14 September 2009). "Maori legend...
- legends of a man-eating bird, known variously as the Pouākai, Hokioi, or Hakawai are commonly believed to recount Haast's eagle, a giant predatory bird...
- Banshee, a similar omen in Irish mythology Devil's bird (disambiguation) Hakawai, a similar omen in Māori mythology Tennent, James Emerson (1861). Sketches...
- PMID 15976305. S2CID 42276496. Miskelly, C. M. (July 1987). "The identity of the hakawai". Notornis. 34 (2): 95–116. Dodenhoff, Danielle J.; Stark, Robert D.; Johnson...
- rituals. Before breeding the male snipe also perform nocturnal aerial "hakawai" displays with calls followed by a non-vocal roar created by diving birds...