The United States was a more colorful place when flocks of Carolina parakeets flew across the sky like daytime fireworks, flashing pops of orange, yellow, and green.. The country’s only native ...

The Carolina parakeet, with its wider and more diverse range, is the one exception. Some culprits have been ruled out by recent studies. In a 2020 paper in the journal Current Biology, a team of ...

The Carolina parakeet was a brilliantly coloured, medium-sized parrot that travelled in large, noisy flocks of around 300. It typically lived in old, swampy forests and was once widespread across ...

The Espinelves Carolina parakeet specimen had 188 RoHs, nine of which were more than 1,000,000 basepairs (1Mb) long — although in comparison, the captive-bred sun parakeet had 611 RoHs and 85 of ...

The Carolina parakeet, so named for the region where it was discovered, was known for its “disagreeable screams” and great beauty. Paul D. Steward / Science Photo Library. Among all the ...

The last known captive Carolina parakeet, named Incas, died Feb. 21, 1918, nearly a year after the death of his mate, Lady Jane, at the Cincinnati Zoo, in the same cage in which America’s last ...

Incas the Carolina parakeet died alone. When he quietly passed away at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden 100 years ago this month, Incas was the last of his kind.

These birds were Carolina parakeets, America’s only native parrot. Exactly 100 years ago, the last captive Carolina parakeet died, alone in a cage in the Cincinnati Zoo, ...

The Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology's new exhibition includes a bird study skin of the now-extinct Carolina Parakeet. The specimen is on loan from Chicago’s Field ...

A federal agency last month removed a bird native to Florida from the Endangered Species List, saying that the Bachman's warbler was one of more than 20 species now considered extinct. The U.S ...