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The tragic story of America's only native parrot, now extinct for 100 years

  • Written by Kevin R. Burgio, Postdoctoral Fellow in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut
The tragic story of America's only native parrot, now extinct for 100 yearsJohn James Audubon's 'Carolina Parakeets.'Wikimedia Commons

It was winter in upstate New York in 1780 in a rural town called Schoharie, home to the deeply religious Palatine Germans. Suddenly, a flock of gregarious red and green birds flew into town, seemingly upon a whirlwind.

The townspeople thought the end of the world was upon them. Though the...

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