DODO stands for..... D- danger O-of D-dying O-out ! An environmental and educational story of what happened to the Dodo, designed to create awareness for endangered species. Co-Written and Narrated by the brilliant Bill Oddie - Consevationist and comedian.
A great children's bedtime audio story! Written in rhyming couplets, so excellent for
helping kids have fun learning to read too!

WHAT HAPPENED TOTHE DODO…… ?

Intoduction by BILL ODDIE.

My hobby is bird watching. The bird I would most love to see is a DODO. But I am too late . DODOs are extinct. There are none left anywhere. Dodos aren’t the only creature that has gone the same way.Not many years ago, the Passenger Pigeon was extremely common in America. People talked of the flocks being so huge that they blocked out the sun. There were no birdwatchers then. There were hunters and eaters! In a very short time the Passenger Pigeon became extinct. So did a bird that lived on the sea and looked like a big penguin. The Great Auk. Now extinct. Shot. Gone. And the Elephant bird ,that looked more like a bird than an elephant! Like a giant Ostrich. An easy target for a hunter, or a big meal for a family. Elephant birds are long, long gone.

I suppose we would like to think that people nowadays wouldn’t kill wild birds for food or fun. But they do. All over the world. Despite the fact that many species are on the official “Endangered List”, which means that they too are in danger of disappearing, like the Dodo. They include the Labrador and Pink Headed Ducks. The Eskimo Curlew,the Mysterious Starling ( its name tells the tale!) A Hawaiian Bird called a Huia,the Takahe from New Zealand -like a plump purple chicken- and in The Southern States of America,a bird that I think of as the feathered equivalent of the yeti, the Ivory Billed Woodpecker A few people claim to have seen it, but nobody is absolutely sure. Did they ever exist ? Have they become extinct? People still go searching for them. Maybe there are just a few left, hiding away deep in the forests or mountains.

Here is a little challenge. If you could bring back one extinct Bird, Fish or Animal, what would it be? I know what MINE is........ Its story is in this book!

BILL ODDIE. JAN.2019.

“If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth then man would only have 4 years left to live. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man!” – Albert Einstein

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