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The Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), or Carolina conure, is an extinct species of small green neotropical parrot with a bright yellow head, reddish orange face, and pale beak that was native to the Eastern, Midwest, and Plains states of the United States.
It was the Carolina Parakeet, North America's only native parrot. Curiously, within the span of a century, the great flocks dwindled to nothing, and this thing of beauty disappeared.
The birds were Carolina Parakeets, and as the villagers’ shock would suggest, their presence was something of a freak occurrence—one of just three state records of the species from 1780 to the 1930s, when it was declared extinct in the wild.
The Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), or Carolina conure, is an extinct species of small green neotropical parrot with a bright yellow head, reddish orange face and pale beak that was native to the eastern, Midwest and plains states of the United States.
Dec 12, 2019 · How humans killed off the only parrot native to the continental U.S. The last Carolina parakeet died in captivity in 1918. Now, new genetic analysis has revealed what drove the bird to...
Jul 27, 2021 · The Carolina parakeet was a brilliantly coloured, medium-sized parrot that travelled in large, noisy flocks of around 300. It typically lived in old, swampy forests and was once widespread across eastern North America, from the Gulf of Mexico all the way to southern Ontario.
Carolina Parakeet Conuropsis carolinensis. Summary. Text account. Data table and detailed info. Distribution map. Reference and further resources. Justification of Red List category. This species formerly occurred in southeastern USA, but it is now Extinct, primarily as a result of persecution.
Mar 4, 2020 · Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (A. F. Poole and F. B. Gill, Editors). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.carpar.01.
Mar 28, 2018 · These birds were Carolina parakeets, America’s only native parrot. In February 1918, the last captive Carolina parakeet died, alone in a cage in the Cincinnati Zoo, the same zoo where the...
Jul 8, 2018 · The Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) or Carolina conure was one of only two parrots native to the United States (the other being the thick-billed parrot found in parts of Arizona and New Mexico).
