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Also known as dodo bird, Raphus cucullatus

The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) 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 solitaire. The two formed the subtribe Raphina, a clade of extinct flightless birds that are a part of the group that includes pigeons and doves (the family Columbidae). The closest living relative of the dodo is the Nicobar pigeon. A white dodo was once thought to have existed on the nearby island of Réunion, but it is now believed that this assumption was merely confusion based on

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The dodo was a large, flightless bird that lived on the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean until it went extinct, and it is notable as a member of the pigeon and dove family whose closest living relative today is the Nicobar pigeon. The dodo's extinction makes it a significant example of a species that disappeared, and it shared this fate with its closest relative, the Rodrigues solitaire, another flightless bird from a nearby island.

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Wikidata facts

Mass
10.2
Image
Dodo head Dinkel.jpg
Height
1
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taxon rank
species
IUCN conservation status
extinct species
taxon name
Raphus cucullatus
Commons category
Raphus cucullatus
Commons gallery
Raphus cucullatus
time of earliest written record
1598-00-00
different from
Dudu
Unicode character
🦤
extinction date
1662-00-00
taxon common name
Pasărea Dodo
end time
1662-00-00
location of discovery
Mauritius Island
start time
23030000-0
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
short name
R. cucullatus
taxon range
Africa
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