The Dodo Blog

Dodo from the Book of Birds by Wiliam F. Stecher

The excellent site Pib’s Virtual Stamp Collections has a very nice collections of Dodo Stamps. Here are some of the dodo stamps of his collection:

Douwe Dabbert is a comic figure conceived by artist Piet Wijn and scenarist Thom Roep.

Douwe Dabbert is a small gnome-like creature who goes through all sorts of strange adventures where he meets (often) supernatural beings. He has a magic backpack from which he can always conjure items that help him out of even the most perilous situations. [...] In several of his stories, he had a dodo as a companion.

Lambiek has a short biography about the creator of Douwe Dabbert, Piet Wijn, in English, and a better one in Dutch. And this Dutch page contains images and information about the all the 23 comic books published and the collections published after. (Thanks Karramarro)

The Extinct Dodo is a fine page with technical and historical information about the birds and old drawings of them.

Contradicting records left some confusion over their traits, habits and palatability. Some accounts said they were fast runners, some said slow and lazy. Skeletal examinations lead some to believe common illustrations of today are inaccurate. Some believe it stood taller than depicted

Dodos likely ranged in weight according to seasonal diets and reproduction periods. They grew to about 50 lbs. They had a greenish yellow bill, black fluffy down and feathers and black feet.

Certainly they were eaten as many wildfowl were then whether tasty or not. They could be caught by hand, but one had to be careful. Their enormous, hooked bill could inflict severe injury.

The The Extinct Dodo is part of the Extinct Birds site. Illustrations by: Alice B. Woodward, Wilhelm Kuhnert, an unknown artist and Roland Savery.

This illustration by Roland Savery was painted using a live Dodo which was brought to Europe in the early seventeenth century.

What kind of dodo blog is this without images of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland? Let’s fix this. Here are some dodo illustrations:

By Lewis Carroll from Alice’s Adventures under Ground, the original Alice.

From the 1907 version, illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Both images by Sir John Tenniel, available at Project Gutenberg. The complete of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is available too in the same site. Or try The University of Adelaide Library page with an on-line version, with images and versions to download.

From the Disney film version. More images of it at Lenny’s Alice in Wonderland Site.

By Maraja, from Alice’s House of Cards.

More images of Alice’s Dodo soon. Until there check also this very short article Dodo (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland).

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

Update: the original image was removed.