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Month: October 2024

Birds We’ve Lost, and Birds We Can Still Save

Posted on October 16, 2024October 15, 2024 by Robert Francis

Note: This is part 3 of a series on the Carolina Parakeet, America’s only native parrot. Part 1 talks about what it was like sharing a world with these birds, and part 2 is about how we drove them extinct. For the last few years I’ve used John James Audubon’s 1827 painting of Carolina Parakeets as my phone’s wallpaper….

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