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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.
Incas (before 1885 – February 21, 1918) was a male Carolina parakeet and the last member of his species known with certainty. Though probable sightings of wild Carolina parakeets continued into the 1930s, and the American Ornithologists Union accepted a sighting in 1920, no specimens were collected after 1904 and he is often cited as the last individual in existence.
Yellow-billed cuckoo. Order: Cuculiformes Family: Cuculidae. Cuculidae includes cuckoos, roadrunners, and anis. These birds are of variable size with slender bodies, long tails, and strong legs. Groove-billed ani, Crotophaga sulcirostris (VR) Greater roadrunner, Geococcyx californianus; Yellow-billed cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus
The Arini tribe of the neotropical parrots is a monophyletic clade of macaws and parakeets (commonly called conures in aviculture) characterized by colorful plumage and long, tapering tails. They occur throughout Mexico , Central America , and South America , the Caribbean and the southern United States .
Conures are either large parakeets or small parrots found in the Western Hemisphere. They are analogous in size and way of life to Afro-Eurasia's rose-ringed parakeets or the Australian parakeets. All living conure species live in Central and South America. The extinct Conuropsis carolinensis, or Carolina parakeet was an exception.
Carolina parakeet, Conuropsis carolinensis (southeastern North America, c. 1930?) Although the date of the last captive bird's death in the Cincinnati Zoo, 1918, is generally given as this species' date of extinction, there are convincing reports of some wild populations persisting until later.
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Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) Cedar waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) Cliff swallow (Hirundo pyrrhonota or Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) Columbian sharp-tailed grouse (Tympanuchus phasianellus columbianus) Common Nighthawk (Chordeiles minor) Common raven (Corvus corax) Eastern kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus)