Moa were many.

Abstract excerpt

Until a few hundred years ago, New Zealand hosted several species of flightless ratite birds, collectively known as the moa. We have used mitochondrial sequence data for Dinornis, the largest of the moa, and new coalescent approaches to estimate its population size prior to human arrival ca. 1000-6000 years BP. We show that, as little as 1000 years ago, Dinornis numbered between 300,000 and 1.4 million and that...

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