The island of Mauritius was home to which extinct bird?
Cuisine of Mauritius 60 years, the first proper sugar was produced. It was during the French and English administration that sugar production was fully exploited, which considerably contributed to the economical development of the island. It was Pierre Charles François Harel who in 1850 initially proposed the concept of local distillation of rum in Mauritius. In part due to his efforts, Mauritius today houses four distilleries (Grays, Medine, Chamarel and St Aubin) and is in the process of opening an additional three. When it was discovered, the island of Mauritius was the home of a previously unknown species of bird, the dodo. Dodos
Mauritius owl Clark wrote that the bird was extinct. Mauritius owl The extinct Mauritius owl ("Mascarenotus sauzieri"), also called Commerson's, Sauzier's or Newton's owl, was endemic to the Mascarene island of Mauritius. It is known from a collection of subfossil bones from the Mare aux Songes swamp, a detailed sketch made by de Jossigny in 1770, a no less detailed description by Desjardins of a bird shot in 1836, and a number of brief reports about owls, the first being those of Van Westzanen in 1602 and Matelief in 1606. No descriptions of owls were recorded between the mid-17th and the late