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It was a smaller bird, three-quarters the size of the Carolina parakeet. "The present species is of peculiar interest as it represents the first known parrot-like bird to be described as a fossil from North America." (Wetmore 1926; [18] italics added) However, it is not completely certain that the species is correctly assigned to Conuropsis. [19]
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.
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.
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 ...
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The family contains 179 species and is divided into 37 genera. Included are four species that have become extinct in historical times: the glaucous macaw, the Carolina parakeet, the Cuban macaw and the Puerto Rican parakeet. The following cladogram is based on a phylogenetic study by Brian Smith and collaborators that was published in 2023.
Pages in category "Parakeets" The following 106 pages are in this category, out of 106 total. ... Carolina parakeet; Chatham Islands parakeet; Cliff parakeet;
Eupsittula – South and Middle American parakeets; Psittacara – genus of parakeets in Central and South America, and the Caribbean; Thectocercus – Blue-crowned parakeet; Tribe Androglossini. Pionopsitta – pileated parrot; Triclaria – blue-bellied parrot; Pyrilia (7 species; all previously included in Pionopsitta). Pionus (8 species)