Hakawai (mythology)
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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 now associated with the nocturnal aerial display
Coenocorypha aucklandica, illustration from Walter Buller's 1888 Birds of New Zealand
Pouākai
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The pouākai is a monstrous bird in Māori mythology.
Hakawai (mythology)
…have been heard in the Auckland and Antipodes Islands, as well as from the newly described Campbell snipe (C. a. perseverance) on Campbell Island. Pouākai Devil Bird, a similar omen in Sri lankan folklore…
Giant Haasts eagle attacking New Zealand moa