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Reunion Fody
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Réunion Fody
Foudia delloni
The Réunion fody (Foudia delloni) is an extinct bird species from the family of weavers. It was endemic to the Mascarene island of Réunion. This bird was first mentioned in a report by traveller Gabriel Dellon and a second time in 1674 by Dubois. The species, of which no museum specimen exist was formally described as new species by Anthony Cheke and Julian Pender Hume in the Book Lost Land of the Dodo in 2008.
From the article Réunion fody on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The Réunion fody reached roughly the size of a house sparrow. The head, neck, throat and the wing underparts of the breeding male were bright red. Back and tail were brown. The belly was pale. The head of the females and the juvenile males was brown. Neck and wings were red. The throat was pale brown. Delloni's 1685 description reads as follows:
While the sparrows are no larger in Mascareigne [Réunion] than in other countries, their numbers render them inconvenient. They strip sown fields and the houses are full of them, as ours are with flies. One often sees them fall into pots and platters, and burning their wings on fires, which are lit out of doors, the sun providing enough heat for [even] the coolest houses.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 520238.