The Dodo Blog

Paysage avec oiseaux (1628) by the Flemish painter Roelandt Savery.

I love the thought of these characters from various fairy-tales living in a perpetual state of wanting to relive their big moment. . .the 15 min of fame – if you will. Always on the lookout for another child to come around and play.

Recruiting A New Alice by tartx.

The Dodo sculpture created by polyscene using silver wire, acid free tissue paper and copper walking stick.

After Tenniel from his illustration for Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’. Lewis Carroll’s (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson’s) use of the Dodo in his book is a reference to himself, he had a stutter and very frequently pronounced his name “Do-do-dodgson”.

Here the Dodo is about to take flight from his paper chrysanthemum. This flower is created using a ancient Chinese modular money folding technique.

Riding Dodo and Eating Dodo sculptures by Kevin Titzer (via Peacay’s blog)

Sidney 2 and Natural Selection polymer clay sculptures by Alexandra Blythe. (Thanks Kristen)

Giant Sherlock Dodo by Ryan Mudd.

Dodo by Rick Froberg (Thanks Suzanne!)

The Dodo Lives from Toronto Life, November 1975. (via Torontoist)

This is the new home of The Dodo Blog and I hope you enjoy. Please update your links to http://www.dodo.blog.br and your feed subscriptions to this one and this one, if you want to subscribe to the comments .

I made a few changes in the original template and in the CSS, got more plugins to this WordPress installation, added more links to organizations and imported all the entries, images and comments. Don’t worry. The old address will still working, but the main page will be redirect to this one.

I have tons of dodo things to blog here, books about dodos to review and new things to discover. If you have a blog about birds, nature or endangered species, let me know to link. I don’t do link exchange but I would be glad to link to non-profit organization like those. For now that all.

And to celebrate the new dodo homes, one of the new images in the English dodo article at Wikipedia: Reunion Dodo and other birds by Dutch artist Pieter Withoos.

Dodo sculpture at the Zoo of Budapest by drotmalac.