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	Parakeet
		The Carolina parakeet was a member of the conure family.
		Parakeets would occasionally breed in captivity, but seldom with much success.
		The death of the last Carolina parakeet is often incorrectly quoted as occurring in September 1914.
	www.georgehoward.net /parakeet.htm (519 words)

	Carolina Parakeet
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		This was the male specimen "Incas," who died within a year of his mate "Lady Jane." It was not until 1939, however, that it was determined that the Carolina parakeet had ceased to be.
		The final extinction of the species is somewhat of a mystery, but the most likely cause seems to be that the birds succumbed to poultry disease, as suggested by the rapid disappearance of the last, small, but apparently healthy and reproducing flocks of these highly social birds.
		If this is true, the very fact that the Carolina Parakeet was finally tolerated to roam in the vicinity of human settlements proved its undoing (Snyder and Russell, 2002).
	crows-nest.theperch.net /theperch.net/The-Carolina--Parakeet.php (537 words)

	The Extinction Website - Species Info - Carolina Parakeet
		Two subspecies are recognised: the Carolina parakeet Conuropsis carolinensis carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1758), and the Louisiana parakeet Conuropsis carolinensis ludovicaina (Gmelin, 1788).
		The juvenile Carolina parakeet's forehead, lores and the area around the eyes is brownish orange and the rest of the head and body is green.
		The Carolina parakeet occurred in the U.S.A., in the
	www.petermaas.nl /extinct/speciesinfo/carolinaparakeet.htm (1286 words)

	parakeet - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		PARAKEET [parakeet] or parrakeet, common name for a widespread group of small parrots, native to the Indo-Malayan region and popular as cage birds.
		It was sought as a cage bird and for its plumage, and was killed as a destroyer of fruit and grain crops.
		Parakeets are classified in the phylum Chordata, subphylum Vertebrata, class Aves, order Psittaciformes, family Psittacidae.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-parakeet.html (354 words)

	Carolina parakeet - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Carolina parakeet was the northernmost representative of the parrot family.
		A fruit eater, the Carolina parakeet was an agricultural pest and was therefore exterminated by farmers.
		Is the monk parakeet the ecological equivalent of North America's extinct carolina parakeet?
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-carolnap1ar.html (258 words)

	The Carolina Parrot
		So far from this, the Parakeets are destroyed in great numbers, for whilst busily engaged in plucking off the fruits or tearing the grain from the stacks, the husbandman approaches them with perfect ease, and commits great slaughter among them.
		The flight of the Parakeet is rapid, straight, and continued through the forests, or over fields and rivers, and is accompanied by inclinations of the body which enable the observer to see alternately their upper and under parts.
		At dusk, a flock of Parakeets may be seen alighting against the trunk of a large sycamore or any other tree, when a considerable excavation exists within it.
	www.audubon.org /bird/BoA/F28_G1a.html (1967 words)

	Parakeet - MSN Encarta
		Parakeet, common name for the smaller members of the parrot family.
		Several are commonly kept as cage birds; the best known of these is the Australian budgerigar, which is the bird usually called parakeet in pet stores.
		Closely related to these was the Carolina parakeet, which was once abundant in the southern United States but is now extinct, the last individual having died in captivity in 1918.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761578321/Parakeet.html (223 words)

	Passenger Pigeon & Carolina Parakeet - Vanished Birds
		The Carolina Parakeet was relatively common from New York to the deep South, and even ranged as far west as Colorado.
		This proximal cause of the eventual extinction of the Carolina Parakeet was set in motion by the overarching, “ultimate causes” such as logging for fuel wood, and habitat destruction caused by land-clearing for agriculture.
		Carolina Parakeets were shot in large numbers in the mid 19th century to supply feathers to decorate women’s hats and dresses.
	www.chattoogariver.org /index.php?req=birds&quart=Sp2000 (2137 words)

	The Carolina Parakeet - Our Only Native Parrot - General Discussions
		The Carolina Parakeet was relatively common from New York to the deep South, and even ranged as far west as Colorado.
		This proximal cause of the eventual extinction of the Carolina Parakeet was set in motion by the overarching, “ultimate causes” such as logging for fuel wood, and habitat destruction caused by land-clearing for agriculture.
		Carolina Parakeets were shot in large numbers in the mid 19th century to supply feathers to decorate women’s hats and dresses.
	www.faunaclassifieds.com /forums/showthread.php?t=68938 (1018 words)

	Carolina Parakeet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Louisiana subspecies of the Carolina Parakeet, C.
		At some date between 1937 and 1955, 3 parakeets resembling this species were sighted and filmed in the Okefenokee swamp of Georgia.
		This was a smaller bird, three-quarters the size of the Carolina Parakeet.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carolina_Parakeet (914 words)

	The Carolina Parakeet (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Carolina Parakeet was the only native parrot in the eastern portion of North America.
		Residing in the Ohio Valley all the way to the Gulf of Mexico the Carolina Parakeet's habitat was mostly along the shore of large rivers.
		In 1913 the last wild Carolina Parakeet was killed and in 1918 the last captive one died in a Cincinnati Zoo.
	astro.temple.edu /~sadamstu/121/GroupWeb/carolina_parakeet.htm (215 words)

	Digital Art 2004: Carolina Parakeet
		Being a member of the parrot family, this parakeet was highly gregarious and traveled commonly in flocks of 30 individuals.
		Parakeets being very social birds, would flock around shot and injured members to help them, making them easy targets and adding to the carnage.
		By 1900, the Carolina Parakeet was extinct in the wild.
	www.empken.com /art/dag152.html (213 words)

	EGGS OF THE CAROLINA PARAKEET: A PRELIMINARY REVIEW
		Eggs of the Carolina Parakeet do, however, seem to be regularly larger than those of any species of the genus Aratinga, rather widely supposed (perhaps a little too freely) to be closely related to the genus Conuropsis.
		The egg of the Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) was, like all birds' eggs, "a complicated structure, which in its design ensures optimum growth and protection of the developing embryo" (Thomson, 1964:236).
		The individual oologist, he went on, "endured the necessary hardships to accomplish his end, and the possession to him of an empty shell of carbonate of lime, stained or not (as the case might be) by a secretion of the villous membrane of the parent's uterus, was to him a sufficient reward" (1896:183-184).
	elibrary.unm.edu /sora/JFO/v048n01/p0025-p0037.html (6549 words)

	Monk Parakeets - Winter 2003
		The monk parakeet, also known as the Quaker or gray-headed parakeet or parrot, was imported for the pet trade during the late sixties and early seventies.
		Monk parakeets have fed on fields of wheat and corn in South America and fruit orchards in Florida.
		Like the monk parakeet, the Carolina parakeet was a colorful, small parrot that lived on an eclectic diet of seeds, buds, and fruits and was kept as a caged bird.
	chicagowildernessmag.org /issues/winter2003/monkparakeets.html (1445 words)

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		In addition to being killed because of crop consumption, the Carolina Parakeet was killed for its colorful feathers which were usied in the millinery trade.
		The Carolina Parakeet was, and the Quaker is, a colorful, small parrot that lived on an diet of seeds, buds, and fruits.
		The Quaker is kept as a cage bird, as was the Carolina Parakeet.
	qp-society.com /qpserc/carolinap.html (311 words)

	NFC: Carolina Parakeet (fwd)
		Carolina Parakeets By Alan J. Garbers" writer at indy_net North America's only native parrot was the Carolina Parakeet.
		Noisy and flock- oriented Carolina parakeets were once common east of the Mississippi river from New York state to Florida.
		By 1900 no wild Carolina Parakeets were left and the last, named Incas, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918.
	fins.actwin.com /nanf/month.9811/msg00317.html (387 words)

	USATODAY.com - Parakeets long gone, but DNA makes some wonder (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The last Carolina parakeet known to be alive in the Lowcountry was eaten by a pig in the 1890s, although there was an unconfirmed sighting in the Santee Swamp about 40 years later.
		The Carolina parakeet was 12 inches long with a parrot's hooked nose.
		Culling DNA to reproduce the parakeet would be difficult and expensive, said Andy Kratter, the curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History curator.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/genetics/2004-11-08-parakeet-dna_x.htm (586 words)

	Lewis and Clark as Naturalists
		Hunted to extinction within a few years of the passenger pigeon, the Carolina parakeet remains etched into American history as a symbol of the populace's tendency to irradicate one-of-a-kind natural resources for short-term, individual gain.
		Carolina parakeets survived in the wild for around 100 years after Clark recorded seeing them in 1804.
		Carolina parakeet from the NMNH collection, 1903, view of the wing.
	www.mnh.si.edu /lewisandclark/species.cfm?id=542 (179 words)

	Carolina parakeet — FactMonster.com
		The Carolina parakeet was the northernmost representative of the parrot family.
		A fruit eater, the Carolina parakeet was an agricultural pest and was therefore exterminated by farmers.
		parakeet - parakeet parakeet or parrakeet,common name for a widespread group of small parrots, native to the...
	www.factmonster.com /id/A0810531 (133 words)

	North Carolina Bird Photos
		Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) - Chapel Hill, NC 12/11/05
		First North Carolina record, Falls Lake, Wake Co., NC 10/22/02.
		Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) and Passenger Pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) from the Duke University collection, 1/15/03.
	www.carolinanature.com /birds (2092 words)

	Carolina Parakeet, Inc. - Home Page
		Carolina Parakeet, Inc. takes its name from the now extinct bird that was North America's only native parakeet.
		Like the Carolina Parakeet, good manners and the refined lifestyle so often associated with tea time are becoming endangered.
		All materials contained herein Copyright © 2001-2007 Carolina Parakeet, Inc. unless otherwise noted.
	www.carolinaparakeet.com (164 words)

	All About Birds : Carolina Parakeet
		The only parrot native to continental North America north of Mexico, the extinct Carolina Parakeet was a grackle-sized gregarious bird, mostly green with a yellow head and orange cheeks.
		The Carolina Parakeet inhabited deciduous forests and forest edges in the eastern United States as far north as the Great Lakes region, as well as wooded river bottoms of the Great Plains as far west as Nebraska.
		This killing, combined with forest destruction throughout the bird's range, and hunting for its bright feathers to be used in the millinery trade, caused the Carolina Parakeet to begin declining in the 1800s.
	www.birds.cornell.edu /AllAboutBirds/conservation/extinctions/carolina_parakeet (247 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Parakeet
		parakeet PARAKEET [parakeet] or parrakeet, common name for a widespread group of small parrots, native to the Indo-Malayan region and popular as cage birds.
		Carolina parakeet CAROLINA PARAKEET [Carolina parakeet] small, long-tailed bird, Canuropsis carolinensis, now believed extinct.
		Politically he was a rather ineffectual ruler, but he was said to have devoted all his spare time to painting and to the reorganization of the Imperial Academy of Painting.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Parakeet (455 words)

	Carolina Parakeet - Extinct
		The Carolina parakeet thought this was dandy and began living off the giant bounty of food provided.
		While the Carolina Parakeet once covered much of southeastern US, soon it was the subject of widespread attempts to wipe it out.
		The last Carolina parakeets were seen in Florida in the 1880s, and it is now extinct.
	www.lisashea.com /petinfo/articles/bird_carolina.html (126 words)

	Carolina Parakeets
		The Carolina Parakeet's previous habitat was in the southeastern USA.
		After most of their natural habitat was cleared for farming, they switched to the seeds of apple, pecan, mulberry, peach, grains, and dogwood, causing a problem for framers, as they were eating their crops.
		The last time the Carolina parakeets were "sighted," was in the 1930's.
	library.thinkquest.org /TQ0312706/carolinaparakeets.htm (176 words)

	Article-The Carolina Parakeet- Glimpses of a Vanished Bird
		He also presents evidence that the parakeet lasted far longer into the twentieth century than generally believed, and that it may have been toxic and distasteful to predators by virtue of its frequent consumption of the cocklebur--a plant highly poisonous to many other vertebrates.
		The crux of the book is his postulation that the parakeets diet of cockleburs made them toxic to most predators thus their bright feathers, gregariousness and ability to "sleep" at night.
		Because cockleburs grow around human dwellings the parakeet was drawn to areas where they came in contact with livestock and other sources of exotic diseases, conceivably nail in the coffin for the parakeet.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_book/A_the_carolina_parakee-0691117950.htm (856 words)

	NC Zoo™ - North Carolina Zoo : Parakeet auklet
		Parakeet auklets spend 6-8 months of the year on the open water.
		Characteristics: Parakeet auklets are small birds, measuring about 10 inches from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail.
		Environmental Connections: Parakeet auklets are closely connected to the oceans.
	www.nczoo.org /animal_id/na_auklet.cfm (429 words)

	Amazon.com: The Carolina Parakeet: Glimpses of a Vanished Bird: Books: Noel F. R. Snyder (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Carolina Parakeet was a modest-sized bird, slightly more than a foot long, with a wingspan about 2 inches shy of 2 feet.
		The crux of the book is his postulation that the parakeets diet of cockleburs made them toxic to most predators thus their bright feathers, gregariousness and ability to "sleep" at night.
		Because cockleburs grow around human dwellings the parakeet was drawn to areas where they came in contact with livestock and other sources of exotic diseases, conceivably nail in the coffin for the parakeet.
	www.amazon.com /Carolina-Parakeet-Glimpses-Vanished-Bird/dp/0691117950 (1134 words)

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