The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
It’s a spectacular pigeon with long neck plumes and blue, green, and copper iridescence in its feathers (I mean, look at this bird ), and it lives on islands from the western Indian Ocean all the way out through northern Melanesia. Solomon Islanders say that the species was driven to extinction by cats and dogs introduced by Europeans.
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