• anon6789@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I was excited to see these guys at the National Aviary, but looking through my photostack, I see I didn’t even bother to take a picture. Up in the tree, it just looked like a black pigeon. 😐

    The colors are an effect of refraction, so seeing them in a canopy takes that away. If you go scrolling pics of them, you’ll see they’re almost all really sunny photos.

    This photo represents what I remember seeing:

    They’re still cool though!

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      3 days ago

      Apparently, the dodo was not according to the reports of sailors. On the other hand, people used to eat a huge number of doves in the middle ages, to the point that they built towers called dovecotes to keep them in. So who knows?