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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

10,000 Birds

Not, as Linneaus thought, an ostrich, nor even, as later scientists concluded, a distant cousin of pigeons deserving of family rank, it was an honest-to-goodness pigeon, deeply embedded within the family Columbidae. In order to raise our awareness, to remind us of what we have lost, and to inspire us to fight for Every.

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A Question of Migration

10,000 Birds

Itcher birds, migratory members of the tern family. Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. Perhaps that will be the subject of a future post in this space. __ 1 Fransson, et al, 2001. The idea was to see if those without magnets taped to their heads got less lost then those with the magnets. Image source.

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