Hello everyone,

I just published an obituary that I've been researching writing for a few
days that may interest you. This obituary is for the Carolina parakeet, a
species that went extinct today, when Incas, the last known representative
of his species, died in the Cincinnati Zoo 100 years ago.

In this piece, I tried to capture the natural history, and the personality
of these birds -- not easy since almost nothing is known about them -- and
to place that into the historical context in which the extinction of this
parrot occurred.

What Happened To America's Only Parrot
http://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2018/02/21/what-happened-to-americas-only-parrot/
TinyURL: https://tinyurl.com/ybw8yj6a

I hope you find this piece interesting. I am ALWAYS interested in more
photographs and documents/observations/letters that mention this species,
so please do let me know if you know of anything out there.

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