Editing Moa (section)

===North Island===
Significantly less is known about North Island paleofaunas, due to the scarcity of fossil sites compared to the South Island, but the basic pattern of moa-habitat relationships was the same.<ref name="WH" /> The South Island and the North Island shared some moa species (''Euryapteryx gravis'', ''Anomalopteryx didiformis''), but most were exclusive to one island, reflecting divergence over several thousand years since lower sea level in the [[Last Glacial Period|Ice Age]] had made a land bridge across the [[Cook Strait]].<ref name="WH" />

In the North Island, ''Dinornis novaezealandiae'' and ''Anomalopteryx didiformis'' dominated in high-rainfall forest habitat, a similar pattern to the South Island. The other moa species present in the North Island (''Euryapteryx gravis'', ''E.&nbsp;curtus'', and ''Pachyornis geranoides'') tended to inhabit drier forest and shrubland habitats. ''P. geranoides'' occurred throughout the North Island. The distributions of ''E.&nbsp;gravis'' and ''E.&nbsp;curtus'' were almost mutually exclusive, the former having only been found in coastal sites around the southern half of the North Island.<ref name="WH" />