The last #CarolinaParakeet (aka #CarolinaConure), from a distant cousin species to that of my #caique Apo, died #ThisDayInHistory in 1918, rendering extinct one of just three or four #parrot species native to the US. (Cali. has the #RedCrownedAmazon, Texas the #GreenParakeet.)

Red-crowned Amazon on a palm tree in LA.

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