Habitat
Illustration from Memoirs on the dodo by Sir Richard Owen, 1866. Recent dodo bone discoveries have changed our understanding of where these birds lived on the island of Mauritius.
The dodo was endemic to the island of Mauritius, in the south-western Indian Ocean.
- Until recently, it was believed that this bird was restricted to the coastal forests of Mauritius, since most of the skeletal remains were found in a marsh in the south east.
- Recent cave finds suggest that dodos inhabited the cooler highlands, or at least spent some of their lives there.