Réunion ibis
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The Réunion ibis or Réunion sacred ibis is an extinct species of ibis that was endemic to the volcanic island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. The first subfossil remains were found in 1974, and the ib
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Roelant Savery painting with a whitish dodo in the lower right, 1611
Hermann Schlegel's 1854 ibis or stork-like restoration, based on Dubois' description instead of as a dodo
The Réunion ibis is said to have fed from soil, like this African sacred ibis
Dodo
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The dodo is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to Mauritius, an island east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. The dodo's closest relative was the also-extinct and flightless Rodrigues solita
Réunion ibis
…referred to as the "Réunion solitaire". In the mid 19th century the old travellers' accounts were incorrectly assumed to refer to white relatives of the dodo. This was assumed because one of the accounts specifically mentioned dodos on the island, and 17th-century paintings of white dodos had recently surfaced…
Oxford Dodo display
The Nicobar pigeon is the closest living relative of the dodo.
1848 lithograph of the Oxford specimen's foot, which has been used to sample DNA for genetic analyses
1601 engraving showing Dutch activities on the shore of Mauritius and the first published depiction of a dodo on the left (2, called "Walchvoghel")