It had blue-gray plumage, a big head, a 23-cm (9-inch) blackish bill with reddish sheath forming the hooked tip, small useless wings, stout yellow legs, and a tuft of curly feathers high on its rear end. The dodo, bigger than a turkey, weighed about 23 kg (about 50 pounds). The dodo is frequently cited as one of the most well-known examples of human-induced extinction and also serves as a symbol of obsolescence with respect to human technological progress. The dodo was extinct by 1681, the Réunion solitaire by 1746, and the Rodrigues solitaire by about 1790. The birds were first seen by Portuguese sailors about 1507 and were exterminated by humans and their introduced animals. The other two species, also found on islands of the Indian Ocean, were the solitaires ( Raphus solitarius of Réunion and Pezophaps solitaria of Rodrigues).
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