What is a dodo bird?

Question

I need to know alomst everything about the Dodo Bird because i am doing a paper on it and most of the stuff i found/printed off doesnt explain the bird very much.

Answer 1

"The dodo bird, historically, has been viewed as a rather plump bird, weighing approximately 20-23 kilograms. Grey in colour, the dodo is quite distinct from the solitaire (a relative of the dodo which lived on the island of Reunion.) The dodo had a large, hooked beak, and a plume of white feathers adorned the rear of the dodo. What distinguishes the dodo from many other birds is not just its size, but that it was flightless. Despite its large build, the dodo had small, weak wings which could not lift it into the air. Thus it was easy prey to the Portuguese invaders who would club the bird to death as it approached them seeking friendship.

Few bones or relics remain of the dodo today. Without complete skeletons, it is impossible to estimate the true size of the dodo bird. While modern estimates range from around twenty to twenty-three kilograms, initial portraits of the bird show a much slimmer creature. Work has been done by museum curator Andrew Kitchener, which suggest that the dodo could have been as light as between thirteen and seventeen kilograms. By analysing dodo bones, he has come up with a prediction that shows the dodo wasn't a fat plump bird at all. Our opinions had been based around European portraits of the bird. These may have been a romanticized version of the truth, or those dodo removed from their natural environment may have been fattened up.

The nests of the dodo bird were, by necessity, built on the ground as the bird was flightless. The dodo's young were afforded little protection on the ground against introduced predators, such as the feral dogs and wild pigs left behind by sailors. Dodo eggs were trampled and eaten by such creatures, and the ability to repopulate the species after hunting of the bird was seriously affected. While the dodo had existed for centuries or more in the natural Mauritian environment, the impact of mankind through hunting and the introduction of new predators placed too great a strain upon the dodo. Soon it was lost to the world."

As quoted from The Tradgedy of the Dodo. This site also has some pictures and if you type the words Dodo bird into your search engine, there are quite a few more to be found.


I hope this gives you some insight and good luck on your research. There are some quirky computer graphicized dodo birds in the "Stone Age" movie. In case you need some humor.

Answer 2

It is a bird that went extinct. It is flightless.
The dodo eventually died out because people wouldn't stop eating them even though people said they were disgusting and foul to eat. Nice birds though. Here is a picture of one to help you :D

Answer 3

dodo(n) an extinct flightless bird, once a native of the island of Mauritius. Discovered 1598, extinct by 1681.

Answer 4

You can't beat Wikipedia for information online about this type of thing.

Here is the 2nd top hit when you Google "Dodo".

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/expeditions/treasure_fossil/Treasures/Dodo/dodo.html?dinos

Answer 5

a dodo bird is a bird that was very pretty but it was sadly extinct a long time ago for its beautiful feathers.

Answer 6

Here are some sites to look through. Good luck and Oh I like the site for the 4th site I gave you it will be a great piece in the Report I think.

Answer 7

not true... Dodo is a bird but it has been extinct since the mid-late 17th century
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo

Answer 8

It is an extince bird look up info you have a computer if the encyclopedia Britanica can npt help you.

Answer 9

it is a bird and i think there still a few left but not many

Answer 10

it is extinct there are none left

it was a very very stupid bird