The Dodo Blog

Dodo paintings by stevonutria:

Do-Do Bird on Unicycle with Nutria: Do-Do Bird on unicycle. The DoDo has rudimentary wings so cannot ride a bicycle properly. The unicycle allows the dodo to escape the Dutch sailors.

Do-Do Bird on Unicycle with Nutria close up

Do-Do Bird, Nutria, and Hedgehog: Here is Cozy Mellow, the Do-Do bird, instructing his buddies, Carlin Nutria and Sissie, the wonder hog on how to keep irrigation at a proper height.

Do-Do Bird #1: The flightless and extinct Do-Do Bird.

Do-Do Bird #2: Close up of Cozy Mellow, the flightless Do-Do Bird.

Dodo and Red Parakeet c.1773, by William Hodges, from the National Library of Australia. (Thanks Arbee!)

The image above is a a small detail of a lithograph by J Erxleben after an early-17th Century painting by Roelandt Savery, found in “Memoir on the Dodo”, 1867. From The Royal Society. (Thanks Paul K !)

Pike, Réunion dodo, from the Post Extinction series, by Bethany Fancher.

Update: the page with the original image was removed.

Dodo Bird by Ake Lianga.

The Last Dodo, oil in canvas (2005) by Steven Kenny. (Thanks David Kleeman!)

After the news by journalists, the news by specialists, not so much different from the others, from the Natural History Museum: Bones will reveal life of dodo:

The new finds will help to piece together the environment the dodo lived in and will help us understand more about how it become extinct.

Scientists hope to find the first complete articulated skeleton of an individual dodo. This will help reveal how the dodo moved around, whether they walked with a waddle or hopped with a skip.

That’s probably not so big news to make you go to the site, so here it is more arguments: images of the dodo in their Picture Library, Dodo model at the birds gallery, and, as they suggest “Take a Dodo architectural tour. The last one was my favourite part. It doesn’t have many texts, however there are two short and amusing videos: The Dodo’s changing image, with an analysis of “Dodo expert Julian Hume” about the famous painting by Roelandt Savery, and The Dodo – The merging of myth and reality a great interview with Julian Hume made in 2003.

Birds – Illustration to the Baburnama: Loriquet (Coryllis vernalis), Horned Pheasant (Tragopan melanocephalus), Dodo (Raphus cucullatus), Ducks, and Partridges, circa 1620-1625, Institute of Oriental Studies. St. Petersburg. From Mughal Miniature Painting – An Alternative Source of History.

Dodo by Marion Peck

The Hooded Dodo after Edwards from the John Wilkes Encyclopaedia Londinensis, 1796. (via BibliOdyssey)

Update: the original image was removed.