A treasury of endemic fauna

A treasury of endemic fauna of Mauritius and Rodrigues

Ria Winters

Contents

The Mauritius blue pigeon

The Dodo

The extinct parrots of Mauritius and Rodrigues

Thirioux’s grey parrot

Broad-billed parrot

Rodrigues parakeet

Rodrigues parrot

The Solitaire

Red rail

Rodrigues rail

Commerson’s lizard-owl

Saddle-backed Rodrigues giant tortoise

Rodrigues giant gecko

Newton’s day gecko

Grey white-eye

Echo parakeet

Mauritius bulbul

Mauritius cuckoo-shrike

Mauritius kestrel

Mascarene swiftlet

Mascarene swallow

Mauritius fody

Pink pigeon

Olive white-eye

The coloured day geckos

Telfair’s skink

The snakes

The Flying foxes

The Dugong

About the project and the artist

Bibliography