Talk:Réunion Sacred Ibis

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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)

[edit] 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)
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