Question: The wildlife of Mauritius is composed of its flora and fauna, some have already become extinct, most famously The Dodo, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in which water location?

Context articles: Dodo
Turdus Solitarius
Dodo (disambiguation)
Echo parakeet
Raphinae
Ascension crake
Upland moa
Wildlife of Mauritius
Rodrigues solitaire
Carl Jones (biologist)

The dodo ("Raphus cucullatus") is an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.
 The dodo's closest genetic relative was the also extinct Rodrigues solitaire, the two forming the subfamily Raphinae of the family of pigeons and doves.
 The closest living relative of the dodo is the Nicobar pigeon.
 A white dodo was once thought to have existed on the nearby island of Réunion, but this is now thought to have been confusion based on the Réunion ibis and paintings of white dodos.
Turdus Solitarius (Latin for "solitary thrush") was a constellation created by French astronomer Pierre Charles Lemonnier in 1776 from stars of Hydra's tail.
 It was named after the Rodrigues solitaire, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues East of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.
 It was replaced by another constellation, Noctua (the Owl), in "A Celestial Atlas" (1822) by the British amateur astronomer Alexander Jamieson.
 Neither constellation is in current use.
The dodo is an extinct flightless bird that lived on the islands of Mauritius.
The echo parakeet or Mauritius parakeet ("Psittacula eques"), is a parrot endemic to Mauritius in the southern Indian Ocean.
 It is the only extant parrot of the Mascarene islands, all others have become extinct due to human activity.
 The extinct Réunion parakeet of nearby Réunion was previously considered a distinct species, but a 2015 DNA study determined it to be a subspecies of the same species as the Mauritius population.
 If the Mauritius and Réunion birds are considered the same species, and the subspecies model is considered, then the Echo parakeet becomes the English group name for both, with the Mauritian birds using the scientific name "Psittacula eques echo".
The Raphinae are a clade of extinct flightless birds formerly called didines or didine birds.
 They inhabited the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and Rodrigues, but became extinct through hunting by humans and predation by introduced non-native mammals following human colonisation in the 17th century.
 Historically, many different groups have been named for both the dodo and the Rodrigues solitaire, not all grouping them together.
 Most recently, it is considered that the two birds can be classified in Columbidae, often under the subfamily Raphinae.
 The first person to suggest a close affinity to the doves was Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, whose opinions were then supported by Hugh Edwin Strickland and Alexander Gordon Melville.
The Ascension crake ("Mundia elpenor") is an extinct flightless bird that previously lived on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean.
 It was declared extinct by Groombridge in 1994; BirdLife International confirmed this in 2000 and 2004.
 It is a member of the family Rallidae.
The upland moa ("Megalapteryx didinus") was a species of moa bird endemic to New Zealand.
 It was a member of the ratite family, a type of flightless bird with no keel on the sternum.
 It was the last moa species to become extinct, vanishing around 1500 AD.
The wildlife of Mauritius is composed of its flora and fauna.
 Mauritius is located in the Indian Ocean to the east of Madagascar.
 Due to its isolation, it has a relatively low diversity of wildlife; however, a high proportion of these are endemic species occurring nowhere else in the world.
 Many of these are now threatened with extinction because of human activities including habitat destruction and the introduction of non-native species.
 Some have already become extinct, most famously the Dodo which disappeared in the 17th century.
The Rodrigues solitaire ("Pezophaps solitaria") is an extinct, flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues, east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean.
 Genetically within the family of pigeons and doves, it was most closely related to the also extinct dodo of Mauritius, the two forming the subfamily Raphinae.
 The Nicobar pigeon is their closest living genetic relative.
Professor Carl G. Jones, MBE (born 20 June 1954) is a Welsh conservation biologist, who has been employed by Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust since 1985, and a founding member (1984) and current scientific director of Mauritian Wildlife Foundation (MWF).
 Additionally he is Chief Scientist at Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, and an honorary professor in ecology and conservation biology at the University of East Anglia.
 Often outspoken on the importance of knowing your species and using intuition, empathy and practical knowledge over dogmatic education, Jones is best known for his work in recovering the Mauritius kestrel (Falco punctatus) from just four individuals in 1974, to an estimated 400.
 Working in the Mascarene Islands since 1979, Jones has led five successful bird restoration projects where the starting population has numbered less than 12 individuals, as a consequence Mauritius has averted more bird extinctions than any other country.
 Jones has pioneered the use of ecological or taxon replacements to fill the ecological roles of extinct animals and successfully restored levels of endemic vegetation to previously denuded islets.
 Jones' work has been highlighted in Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine's 1990 radio documentary "Last Chance to See", along with its accompanying book, as well as David Quammen's 1996 book "The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions".