I just got around to going through 66 Tweeters messages, and see that this one might be worth replying to.

I saw, in one of my bird books, where an observer near Lake Okeechobee, Florida, saw one of a small flock of Carolina Parakeets drop dead before his eyes! It was a relatively recent sighting, in the early twentieth century I think. That sounds like disease to me, but I'd have to relocate the literature to be sure.

Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA
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From: Joemeche at aol.com
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> In a message dated 7/9/2007 9:45:51 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> rnbuffle at yahoo.com writes:
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> My hunch on the Carolina Parakeet is that hunters bullets worked a lot
> faster than any virus.
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> Passenger Pigeons succumbed to the same "virus."
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> Joe Meche
> Bellingham
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