Poukai

The (also spelled ) is a monstrous bird in Māori mythology.

==Mythologies== In some of these legends, the Pouākai kills and eats humans. The myth may refer to the real but now extinct Haast's eagle: the largest known eagle species, which was able to kill an adult moa weighing up to , and which potentially had the capability to kill a person. thumb|Artist's depiction of a Pouākai