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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.
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 .
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
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 ...
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.
Leptosittaca – golden-plumed parakeet; Ognorhynchus – yellow-eared parrot; Diopsittaca – red-shouldered macaw; Guaruba – golden parakeet; Conuropsis – Carolina parakeet ; Cyanopsitta – Spix's macaw (extinct in the wild) Orthopsittaca – red-bellied macaw; Ara – true macaws (eight living species, and at least one recently extinct)
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All of the plants Lewis collected in the first months of the Expedition were cached near the Missouri River to be retrieved on the return journey. The cache was completely destroyed by Missouri flood waters. Other collections were lost in varying ways, and we now have only 237 plants Lewis collected, 226 of which are in the Philadelphia ...