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Carolina Parakeets The Carolina Parakeet's previous habitat was in the southeastern USA. They typically ate seeds from elm, maple, pine, grasses, cocklebur, and, well, you get the point. 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. Farmers began shooting them in large numbers. Plus, their habitat was being destroyed. This caused their population to decline greatly. Male and female Carolina Parakeets were very similar in coloration. They were mostly green, their head was orange, their neck was yellow, and their tail was pointed. The last time the Carolina parakeets were "sighted," was in the 1930's. And now they're gone forever. Citations Fuller, Errol. Extinct Birds. New York: Facts on File, 1987. Lessman, Don. Dinosaurs to Dodos; An Encyclopedia of Extinct Animals. New York: Scholastic Inc. Peter's Homepage:
Recently Extinct Animals. "Carolina Parakeet"
at Image of Carolina parakeets from "ArtToday.com" <http://members.clipart.com/en/index> (2003).
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The last Carolina
Parakeet (conuuropsis carolines) known to humans was Incas. Incas
died on February 21st, 1918. Incas, his keepers at the Cincinnati Zoo claim,
died of a broken heart, not of old age, even though he and his
mate, Lady Jane, had lived in the zoo for over 32 years. Lady Jane died
the summer before Incas died and he pined through the fall and winter.