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https://cdn.scencyclopedia.org/sce/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14142019/Carolina-Parakeet-by-John-James-Audubon.jpg437599Now extinct, the Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) was a dove-sized (about thirty-five centimeters long) bird with a bright green body, yellow head, and orange face. Mark Catesby, an English naturalist living in Charleston, painted the parakeet in 1731, thus providing the first scientific description of the species. The species was abundant in early America, and […]