Hantu masa lalu (Ghosts of the Past)
Carolina Parakeet
Conuropsis carolinensis
- mistis
- 48 km/h
- Punah
The only parrot native to the eastern US. Went extinct because it was too loyal to its flock.
- Populasi
- 0 (extinct; last confirmed wild bird 1904/1910, last captive bird "Incas" died at Cincinnati Zoo Feb 21, 1918; formally declared extinct 1939)
- Habitat
- Old-growth bottomland and swamp forests along rivers, favoring large hollow cypress and sycamore trees for roosting and nesting
- Fakta menarik
- The last known Carolina Parakeet, a bird named Incas, died at the Cincinnati Zoo on February 21, 1918 — in the same cage where Martha, the last passenger pigeon, had died four years earlier.
- Sebaran
- Eastern and midwestern United States, from southern New York and Wisconsin south to the Gulf of Mexico and west to eastern Colorado (historically across roughly 28 U.S. states); the only parrot native to North America north of Mexico
- Makanan
- Seeds (notably cocklebur, cypress, hackberry, oak, beech, sycamore, elm, pine), fruits and flower buds; occasional insects; later raided orchard fruit (apples, grapes, figs) as habitat was lost
- Ukuran
- 0,33 m
- Bentang sayap
- 0,56 m
- Masa hidup
- 8 tahun
