A Carolina Parakeet specimen displayed at the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Photo by
Danny Poet
MBP List
Status
The only parrot species endemic to the Eastern United States was extinct by 1918. The last known wild individual was killed in Florida in 1904. The last captive bird died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918.
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A Carolina Parakeet specimen displayed at the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Media by
Danny Poet.