Flightless birds: When did the dodo become extinct?

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Nov 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003natur.426..245r&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 426, Issue 6964, pp. 245 (2003).

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The extinction of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus L.; Fig. 1) is commonly dated to the last confirmed sighting in 1662, reported by Volkert Evertsz on an islet off Mauritius. By this time, the dodo had become extremely rare - the previous sighting having been 24 years earlier - but the species probably persisted unseen beyond this date. Here we use a statistical method to establish the actual extinction time of the dodo as 1690, almost 30 years after its most recent sighting.

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