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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.
Carolina Parakeet (subsp. ludoviciana) [1] Choiseul Crested Pigeon [1] Slender-billed grackle; 1911 Guadalupe Storm Petrel [1] 1914 Forest Spotted Owlet [1] Passenger pigeon [1] 1916 Korean Crested Shelduck [1] 1918 Carolina Parakeet (subsp. carolinensis) [1] Lānaʻi Hookbill, a honeycreeper; 1920 Delalande's Madagascar Coucal [1] Laysan ...
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 ...
Taxidermied extinct birds, two passenger pigeons (left) & a Carolina parakeet (right), on display at the National Museum of Natural History. Bird extinction is the complete elimination of all species members under the taxonomic class, Aves.
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 ...
Two subspecies, C. c. carolinensis (Carolina parakeet, east and south of the Appalachian Mountains – extinct either 1918 or c. 1930) and C. c. ludovicianus (Louisiana parakeet, west of the Appalachian Mountains – extinct c. 1912). Guadeloupe parakeet, Psittacara labati (Guadeloupe, West Indies, late 18th century)
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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.