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[[File:Edwards' Dodo.jpg|thumb|left|''Edwards' [[Dodo]]'', a 1626 painting by [[Roelant Savery]], possibly showing a red rail (or a [[bittern]]) in the lower right|alt=An oil painting depicting a red-feathered parrot with yellow wing tips; a large, ungainly, duck-like bird with grey, white and yellow feathers; a parrot with a black back, yellow breast and a yellow and black tail; and a brown-feathered bird with a long bill eating a frog]]
 
The two most realistic contemporary depictions of red rails, the Hoefnagel painting from ca. 1610 and the sketches from the ''Gelderland'' ship's journal from 1601 attributtedattributed to Laerle, where brought to attention in the 19th century.<ref name="Hume2019"/> Much information about the bird's appearance comes from Hoefnagel's painting, based on a bird in the [[menagerie]] of [[Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor|Emperor Rudolph II]] around 1610.<ref name="Rothschild">{{Cite book
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