Ben Lascelles / Mauritius Fody (Foudia rubra). Ile Aux Aigrette, Mauritius.

Brent Stephenson / Male Red Fody (Foudia madagascariensis) perched. Curieuse, Seychelles.

Brent Stephenson / Adult male Aldabra fody (Foudia eminentissima aldabrana) a subspecies of red-headed fody only found on Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles.

Brent Stephenson / Adult male Aldabra Fody (Foudia eminentissima aldabrana) a subspecies of red-headed fody only found on Aldabra Atoll, Seychelles.

Brent Stephenson / Male Red Fody (Foudia madagascariensis) perched. Curieuse, Seychelles.

Brent Stephenson / Young male Red Fody (Foudia madagascariensis) perched. Curieuse, Seychelles.

Pete Oxford / Madagascan red fody {Foudia madagascariensis} on flower, Antananarivo, Madagascar.

Julian Hume / Illustration of extinct and extant birds,Reunion Island,Indian Ocean. Reunion fody (Foudia delloni), male (top right) female (top left) (extinct 1674); with Reunion stonechat (Saxicola tectes) (bottom...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Lienard's giant day-gecko (Phelsuma gigas) (extinct 1841) raids a Rodrigues fody (Foudia flavicans) (endangered/threatened species),nest,which hangs from a bough of Scyphochlamys revol...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Mauritian lowland dry forest with extinct species. Dodo (Raphus cucullatus) - extinct 1688 - in a woodland of black ebony (Diospyros tesselaria),Tambalacoque Sideroxylon grandiflorum,...

Julian Hume / Illustration of Mauritian birds. Mauritius pink pigeon (Nesoenas mayeri) (centre left); Mauritius fody (Foudia rubra) (centre right); Mauritius olive white-eye (Zosterops chloronothos) feeding on the...