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COLUMBIFORMES

Columbidae is distributed over the tropical zone and the Temperate Zone of the whole world, but it develops most and many kinds live in Orient ward and the Australian region. It is said that it is structure of the self-defense when it was attacked by hawks that the feather is easy to fall out and can outrun you immediately even if it touch a little. Generally it eats the vegetable things such as a nut or grains, but some eats salt depending on a kind. When it drinks water, it drinks with having put a bill in water, and there cannot be the thing that it grows a head like other birds above and swallow water. The fledgling inserts a bill to the throat of the parent bird, and the point brought up in milk "of so-called" Pegion of the predigestion is different in other birds and a habit.
Dodo is the birds which became extinct which inhabited the Madagascar offing, Mauritius Island. Because it becames extinct without 180 years passing after it was discovered, it is treated as a thing to tell about human unnatural which drives an endemic species into the extinction. There can be having already become extinct and the thing that it is called a Dodo bird it is plain, and to do whether a sound points at onomatopoeia or what.

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