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    Dodo (redirect from Dronte)
    17th-century description of a dodo and bones found on Rodrigues, now known to have belonged to the Rodrigues solitaire, led Abraham Dee Bartlett to name a new...
    137 KB (15,887 words) - 00:58, 28 October 2024
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    Red rail (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. It had a close relative on Rodrigues island, the likewise extinct Rodrigues rail (Erythromachus leguati), with which it is sometimes...
    48 KB (6,017 words) - 09:33, 16 August 2024
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    Réunion ibis (category Taxa named by Edmond de Sélys Longchamps)
    name "solitaire" for the Rodrigues solitaire, a Raphine bird (related to the dodo) he encountered on the nearby island of Rodrigues in the 1690s, but it is...
    39 KB (4,958 words) - 23:38, 20 September 2024