Mauritius Gallery

Dodo at The African Museum of the Island of Aix

A Dodo at The African Museum of the Island of Aix is a French museum located on the island of Aix in Charente-Maritime. Sharing the label museum of France with the nearby Napoleonic Museum, it houses the hunting trophies of Baron Gourgaud (1891-1944), as well as a series of ethnographic objects from the African continent, staged according to the customs of the 1930s. The Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) of Mauritius is only a reproduction, since the species had been extinct since the 18th century. Date: circa 1920s

Interior of Ilot Gabriel island

Interior of Ilot Gabriel island a view to the West to a lighthouse on Ile Plate / Flat island vegetation among black basalt rocks wind-battered Common screwpine tree (on the right) endemic for Mascarenes (Mauritius and Reunion) June North of Mauritius

© Andrey Zvoznikov / ardea.com

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Village Weaver Spotted-backed Weaver Black-headed Weaver

Village Weaver Spotted-backed Weaver Black-headed Weaver adult male seats on a branch between an old woven nest and new nest being built by another male made of green grass colony on a tree in outskirts of Poste de Flacq settlement June East of Mauritius

© Andrey Zvoznikov / ardea.com

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