The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 7, 2014
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. “A ground-dwelling inhabitant of dense lowland rainforest,” notes Doughty et al.’s
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