Moa statue (Halo 3)

This article is about the collectibles in Halo 3. For similar collectibles in other games, see Moa statue.

Master Chief looking at a golden Moa in Halo 3.

Moa statues are a collectible available in the campaign of Halo 3. The statues were added to Halo 3's campaign in the Series 8: Mythic update for Halo: The Master Chief Collection, and are not present in the original Xbox 360 edition of the game.

Overview

Several moa statues can be found in each level on any difficulty and take the form of a small golden Moa. Upon being discovered, the statues can be destroyed, with the weekly challenge Eye Spy requiring the destruction of three such Moa for completion. Three levels are chosen to spawn Moa within each week (observable on the challenge itself), with each level getting three statues chosen, meaning they are not all consistently placed all the time. As such, this page lists all potential statue locations. Statues marked as (Broken) spawn every week and don't count towards the challenge, even when the challenge selects the level the statues are placed on. Statues marked as (Unobtainable) denote statues placed in cutscene rooms that aren't accessible.

Statue locations

There are a grand total of 122 statues in the level files, though that number becomes 117 when excluding the unobtainable and broken ones.

Sierra 117

Sierra 117 has 17 Moa Statues, which can be found in the following locations:

• At the start, nestled in the roots of a tree behind chief's impact crater.
• Nestled into the greenery on the left side wall where the brute howling is heard.
• In the water pool just afterwards, at the edge closest to where the player came from.
• Atop the cliff face beside a waterfall that Johnson's squad scales when they split up with the Master Chief.
• Inside the small structure near the first Brute encounter.
• Amidst the cluster of rocks where the stream makes its first drop.
• After the first flare tunnel, when you drop into another short tunnel, the statue is behind you.
• In the area where a marine informs you of "sleepers", the statue is in the branches of a tree in the middle right of the section.
• In the section where Gunnery Sergeant Reynolds is being interrogated by a Jiralhanae, the Moa is behind the large boulder near the bodies of Reynolds' squad.
• Immediately following Reynolds' squad there is a Moa atop a large overhead pipe.
• (Broken) In the section where Sgt. Johnson's Pelican gets shot down, a Moa is hiding under the ramp down from the small structures toward the river.
• In the cliffside structure, the Moa is up high in the pipe.
• In the area where Johnson says "If you want breakfast, you gotta catch it", there's a Moa in the bush atop the outcropping to the left of the starting overlook. Due to the bush and the placement height, it is not normally observable without using a sniper from the other end of the area.
• From the crashed pelican, walk onto the white concrete square on the right side of the metal bridge. Turn right to face the cave, and look up into the tree branches at the bushes along the room's upper boundary. There is a lighter patch with two darker patches coming up from either end; aim near the tip of the right patch.
• There is a Moa beneath the bend in the river between the crashed pelican and the final area. It can be gotten from either end, but has a better visual lineup from the crashed pelican side. Standing at the tip of the rock overlooking the crash and the river, a faint circle can be made out where the river meets the rock wall. You'll want to aim below it, just below the shadow on the river.
• After the cutscene where Johnson is being thrown in the cell, the statue is to the right of the building where Johnson is, near the water on some pipes.
• At the dam, on the farther end of the dam wall there's a No Fishing sign. If you stand against it, then look back with a sniper towards where chief and arbiter were in the cutscene overlooking the area, you should be able to make out bits of a Moa statue in a gap of the tree leaves. This one can be spotted from the area with the crashed pelican as well, but the area boundaries prevent it from being shot from over there.

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  Ingame line-up for the previous Moa.