Rodrigues parrot
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The Rodrigues parrot or Leguat's parrot is an extinct species of parrot that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues. The species is known from subfossil bones and from mentions in contempora
Necropsittacus
Holotype upper beak, 1867
Assigned beak, 1873
Life restoration of two Rodrigues parrots
Rodrigues solitaire
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The Rodrigues solitaire is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. A member of the family of pigeons and doves, it was most clos
Rodrigues parrot
…the island entirely, but very little remains today due to deforestation. The Rodrigues parrot lived alongside other recently extinct birds such as the Rodrigues solitaire, the Rodrigues rail, Newton's parakeet, the Rodrigues starling, the Rodrigues scops owl, the Rodrigues night heron, and the Rodrigues pigeon. Extinct…
Pezophaps solitaria 2
A Nicobar pigeon, the closest living relative of the Rodrigues solitaire and the dodo according to DNA studies
1708 drawing by François Leguat, the only known illustration of this species by someone who observed it alive
1854 restoration by Hermann Schlegel