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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.
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.
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.
The state's only native parakeet, the Carolina parakeet, was driven to extinction sometime in the 1800s. Lindsay Addison, coastal biologist with Audubon North Carolina, said she’s not sure why ...
John James Audubon's 'Carolina Parakeets.' Wikimedia CommonsIt was winter in upstate New York in 1780 in a rural town called Schoharie, home to the deeply religious Palatine Germans. Suddenly, a ...
Common name Scientific name IUCN Red List Status Range Picture Slender-billed parakeet: E. leptorhynchus (King, 1831) LC: Central Chilean coast (central meaning halfway between the northern and southern extremes) Austral parakeet: E. ferrugineus (Müller, 1776) LC
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Incas, the last Carolina parakeet, who died in 1918 at the Cincinnati Zoo, reportedly of grief after his mate Lady Jane died a few months before him, in 1917; Jackie, a wild female bald eagle whose nest is live streamed, capturing its egg laying, brooding, and hatching efforts