Talk:Réunion ibis

Move
Réunion Flightless Ibis - move to Réunion Sacred Ibis. This bird was not flightless and the new name would be in line with ibis vernacular names. Dysmorodrepanis 19:22, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 4 July 2005 21:54 (UTC)

Drawing
Any chance there could be a drawing/picture of the bird in some exotic books like that of Dodo?
 * There are some on the Web: here and here. Whether head and upper neck were feathered or nude is uncertain - the relationships suggest they were nude and there is no real reason to suppose that the species evolved a feathered head again (the adaptive value when - as one report puts it IIRC - browsing through "the filth" for worms etc is obvious). But no report mentions a nude head, so take your pick. Dysmorodrepanis 04:56, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * OIC, you seem to mean a drawing from life! No, none that I know of. The extinct birds of Réunion are the least well documented in all the Mascarenes. Dysmorodrepanis 04:57, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

White Dodo?
There is a picture of a white dodo-like bird in the article and it's supposed to be an albino dodo. I read from somewhere that this can be another species, because if the bird was indeed an albino dodo, its claws should be close to pink or white. In the painting, the claws of the bird is black. Can it be that this is NOT an albino dodo, but another species of dodo-related bird?
 * It is just a hypothtical drawing. FunkMonk (talk) 11:49, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

"of for"
I tried to fix this phrase in parentheses: Similar nesting behaviour as on Rodrigues (of for the dodo for that matter) was never reported, but I wasn't certain what meaning was intended. I opted for: Similar nesting behaviour as on Rodrigues (in the Réunion bird, or in the dodo for that matter) was never reported, hope I got that right. Card Zero (talk) 11:15, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

So...
Why are they extinct? 98.240.146.10 (talk) 08:57, 14 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Hunting and deforestation. FunkMonk (talk) 18:50, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

Continuation of FAC comments
Though the article has promoted, I have no problem with arguing further about improvements, Snowman. So I will respond to your comments here.
 * You seem to misunderstand what Fuller says in his books. He does not claim the white Dodo is valid, but he states that though no raphine bones have been found on the island, it does not mean there never was one (without specifying colour). That is why Cheke and Hume dismiss his claim.
 * Your interpretation of Buffon is different form how I understand it. He does not mention any voyagers seeing Dodos on Réunion, so I'm not sure what you mean by "where the ship went".
 * As for Gibbs, the article clearly uses plural, as in "such views", indicating that it is not just Fuller who is dismissed. FunkMonk (talk) 03:27, 13 March 2013 (UTC)