As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Sunday 5 May 2019

Rare dodo skeleton is expected to fetch more than half a MIILLION pounds at auction


The skeleton was pieced together using bones from different dodos birds
They were mostly up from a marshland by a naturalist around in the 19th century
It is currently in private hands and will go up for auction next month  
The specimen is expected to fetch between £400,000 and £600,000
PUBLISHED: 17:57, 26 April 2019 | UPDATED: 17:57, 26 April 2019
A skeleton made up of bones from a number of dodo birds is expected to fetch up to £600,000 ($778,000) at an upcoming Christie's auction in London
The specimen has been pieced together from bones discovered in Mauritius in the early 19th century.  
It will go up for sale next month with a number of other specimens from around the world including a fossil of the extinct marine reptile Ichthyosaur. 
Dodo skeletons from the same bird is extremely rare, and only one dodo specimen in the world has an intact head. 
Dr Julian Hume, a British avian palaeontologist, said: 'More has been written about the dodo than any other bird, a true icon of extinction, yet virtually nothing is known about it in life.
'Apart from a few bones, a handful of inadequate historical illustrations and accounts, and some 300 years after its demise, this emblematic bird continues to prompt wonder and debate.'


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