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Originally posted by dhamsaic
Wingspan can get up to 6 feet. I saw one when I was about 10 on Prince Edward Island. They are <b>big</b>. 
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big ? You yanks don't know the meaning of the word :-)
Now New Zealand, we have some big birds (and not the yellow, talking kind, although we do have some small birds of the yellow eye variety).
http://www.albatrosses.com/
And if we count extinct birds, well they don't get much larger than
http://www.kcc.org.nz/birds/extinct/moa.htm
of course I'll quietly ignore it's "wings" :-) Some say the Moa isn't extinct, just really really really rare, it's unlikely, but possible given the more or less unexplored (and largely inaccessible) regions of Fiordland).