Is the Moa modeled...

...after the extinct Moa from new zealand?

http://www.pibburns.com/cryptost/moa.htm

Well, I think they definitely thought about that bird, but our Moa seems more dinosaur like...

the extinct Giant Moa was a dinosaur like bird. I found some more picks of it on the net..

http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/images/moa.jpg
http://www.marton.co.nz/cards/moa.jpg
http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa

what made me notice as my son got his Zoobooks today on Endangered Animals and it had the Moa listed as now extinct due ot over hunting by main around 1200 AD

I dunno but when they die they look an awful lot like an Archaeopteryx...

The moa birds in the game are more akin to the flightless phorusracid birds of South America, imo. The hooked bill and the build of the things are unmistakable...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorusrhacos

Woh got some people that know alot about animals .