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    The Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian...
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    many different groups have been named for both the dodo and the Rodrigues solitaire, not all grouping them together. Most recently, it is considered...
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    The dodo's closest relative was the also-extinct and flightless Rodrigues solitaire. The two formed the subfamily Raphinae, a clade of extinct flightless...
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  • Solitaire may refer to: Le Solitaire, a 1987 French film Solitaire (1991 film), a Canadian drama film Solitaire (2008 film), a drama film Solitaire, 2016...
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    Réunion flightless ibis, broad-billed parrot, red rail, Rodrigues rail, and Rodrigues solitaire. Contemporary sources state that the dodo used gizzard...
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    pigeon, and is the closest living relative of the extinct dodo and Rodrigues solitaire. In 1738, the English naturalist Eleazar Albin included a description...
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    Rodrigues (French: Île Rodrigues [il ʁɔdʁiɡ]; Creole: Rodrig) is a 108 km2 (42 sq mi) autonomous outer island of the Republic of Mauritius in the Indian...
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  • Thumbnail for Réunion ibis
    used the name "solitaire" for the Rodrigues solitaire, a Raphine bird (related to the dodo) he encountered on the nearby island of Rodrigues in the 1690s...
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    previously also contained the family Raphidae, consisting of the extinct Rodrigues solitaire and the dodo. These species are in all likelihood part of the Indo-Australian...
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  • José Rodrigues Neto, Brazilian footballer Rodrigues solitaire, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues Rodrigues' rotation...
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    that the two were the closest relatives of the extinct dodo and Rodrigues solitaire. The surviving specimen is 32 cm (13 in) long, and has very dark...
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    as other island endemics have become extinct (e.g. the dodo and Rodrigues solitaire, giant flightless pigeons related to the Nicobar pigeon). A similar...
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    tail. It was named after the Rodrigues solitaire, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues East of Madagascar in the Indian...
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    shrimp (marine crustacean) Nodocephalosaurus (armored dinosaur) Rodrigues solitaire (extinct bird) Talarurus (armored dinosaur) Ball-headed War Club...
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    flightless, has not been seen flying) Dodo, Raphus cucullatus † Rodrigues solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria † Viti Levu giant pigeon, Natunaornis gigoura...
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    on Hydra's tail as the constellation Solitaire, named for the extinct flightless bird, the Rodrigues solitaire, but the image was that of a rock thrush...
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    morphological adaptions of flightless columbids, akin to that of the dodo, Rodrigues solitaire and Viti Levu giant pigeon. It was presumed to have been hunted to...
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    Rodrigues parrot or Leguat's parrot (Necropsittacus rodricanus) is an extinct species of parrot that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues...
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    Dodo Rodrigues solitaire...
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  • Thumbnail for Viti Levu giant pigeon
    was only slightly smaller than the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) and Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) and is the first giant flightless pigeon to...
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    The Rodrigues night heron (Nycticorax megacephalus) is an extinct species of heron that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues in the Indian...
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    Rodrigues rail lived alongside other recently extinct birds, such as the Rodrigues solitaire, the Rodrigues parrot, Newton's parakeet, the Rodrigues starling...
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  • cicur) Réunion pink pigeon (Nesoenas duboisi) Rodrigues pigeon (Nesoenas rodericanus) Rodrigues solitaire (Pezophaps solitaria) Red-moustached fruit dove...
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    †Pezophaps solitaria (Rodrigues solitaire) †Raphus cucullatus (dodo)...
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    basis for the "Réunion solitaire" or "white dodo" ("Raphus solitarius"), a supposed relative of the dodo and the Rodrigues solitaire. Given the fact that...
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    François Leguat (category History of Rodrigues)
    now extinct fauna of Rodrigues including the Rodrigues solitaire, the Rodrigues rail, the domed and the saddle-backed Rodrigues giant tortoises and Newton's...
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    The Rodrigues pigeon or Rodrigues dove (Nesoenas rodericanus) is an extinct species of pigeon formerly endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues. It...
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    (renamed to Mocking Bird and then to Noctua). Named in honor of the Rodrigues solitaire, an extinct flightless bird related to the dodo. 1776 Pierre Charles...
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    sent his brother a number of specimens, including the dodo and the Rodrigues solitaire, both already extinct. In 1878, Newton initiated the first laws anywhere...
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  • becomes the first woman to discover a comet. Subfossil bones of the Rodrigues solitaire are discovered. February 2 – In a speech before The Asiatic Society...
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