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There's a whole "Is vs Was" discussion on the Talk page, for anyone tempted to re-litigate the matter. I'll just point out that other extinct items are often worded like "The dodo is an extinct bird..."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Smallpox [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo



Check your sentence diagram.

The extinctness of the dodo is present tense. Therefore, it is an extinct bird.

The dodo was a ground nesting bird that inhabited the island of Mauritius. But it's still extinct.




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