“In some districts, where twenty-five years ago they were plentiful, scarcely any are now to be seen,” John James Audubon warned in 1831. The last Carolina parakeet in captivity, a male named ...

The "Audubon's Birds of Florida" exhibit at the ... scrub jay and the extinct Carolina parakeet and passenger pigeon, said Zach Zacharias, senior curator of history at the Museum of Arts ...

At one point in time, the Carolina parakeet was alive and well. In the mid-nineteenth century, the birds' numbers declined due to habitat loss and hunting. However, the remaining population seemed ...

Carolina parakeets (Conuropsis carolinensis ... A resized digital edition of Audubon's masterpiece has been created by disbinding one of two original sets held at the Museum and photographing it using ...