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Heraldry-style Dodo
Originally drawn for the DinoCon 2026 Art Exhibition
Exhibition print available here
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Heraldry-style Dodo
Originally drawn for the DinoCon 2026 Art Exhibition
Exhibition print available here
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Despite their fame, astonishingly little is known about these large, flightless birds.
The skeleton of a dodo (Raphus cucullatus) is displayed beside a reconstruction of the flightless bird which became extinct by the late 17th century. National Museum of Wales, 1938.
Photo credit: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images
DinApril Day 13: A Quaternary dinosaur (that your father saw).
Welcome to DinApril 2026, where instead of recycling my list from last year, I made my father come up with the dinosaurs! Our thirteenth day features a Quaternary dinosaur: Raphus cucullatus! In a scene from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that didn't make it into the movie, the Dodo (who's received a redesign to look more like the actual animal) gives Alice a thimble as her prize for the Caucus race. Alice is less than impressed.
This technically fulfills tomorrow's prompt of a dinosaur wearing a hat, but I'm going to use another species for that.
Coloration inspired by the actual animal, specifically from a 1625 painting of it by Ustad Mansur.
A while back, I worked on a series of prints based on different birds, each using a different printmaking method. For my block relief print, I went with a dodo, in honor of the first published images of the species, which were rendered as woodcuts. This print depicts one of the last dodos sighted on Mauritius, the sun setting on the island and its remarkable giant dove.
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April 1, 2022 -Â Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)
3,000th Bird
Once found in dry forests on the island of Mauritius, these large flightless birds in the dove family were probably last seen in 1662. Just over three feet (one meter) tall, their exact appearance is no longer known, as only bones, a dried head and foot, descriptions, and illustrations survive and many of the accounts are contradictory. They fed on fruit and probably also nuts, seeds, and roots, though there are few records of their diet. Nesting on the ground, they likely laid clutches of a single egg. As they evolved on an island without major predators they were easy prey for humans and their nests were vulnerable to invasive species, including dogs, pigs, cats, rats, and monkeys.
Note: While researching this bird I was surprised at how little information we actually have about them and how inaccurate most of the surviving images are thought to be. Because of this I consider this drawing to be my own artistic interpretation of a dodo and can’t claim any particular scientific accuracy.
I've recently decided to paint a dodo, because why not? It is a very weird animal and a grim reminder of human encroachment.
However, there is one teeny detail of the dodo that is driving me nuts.
Haunted Carousel 1 of 8: The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus)
Carousels, for me, represent nostalgia; beautiful things recalling memories from a time since passed of joy that can never truly be revisited. This association is what led me to marry the concept to a subject that is at once both past and urgently present - the extinction of animal species.
The Dodo was a flightless relative of the pigeon, native to Mauritus Island off the coast of Madagascar. First recorded in 1598, habitat loss and introduced species drove it to extinction less than 100 years later. No skins survive, and there is only one known image painted of a living Dodo to give us clues as to its appearance.Â