num_pages: 76
description: Many early settlers and naturalists wrote of the Carolina Parakeet in journals, diaries and natural histories. However, the knowledge we inherited about the species from these firsthand accounts is sketchy and anecdotal. The mysteries of the Carolina Parakeet could fill a book.These gaps in information are grievous, but understandable. The bird's green and gold plumage made it almost invisible amidst lush foliage in swamps, lowlands and deciduous riverbottom forests. And the birds roosted in hollows hidden from the human eye. Ornithologists of the day were focused on collecting specimens rather than documenting life history and behavior. Thus, the species vanished from Earth before having been adequately researched. Now, almost forgotten, This is the sobering story of how a young nation loved, laid waste and lost its only parrot.
language: English
title: The Carolina Parakeet: America's Lost Parrot in Art and Memory
titlecomplete: The Carolina Parakeet: America's Lost Parrot in Art and Memory
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Avian Publications