May 11, 2001
Of Parakeets and Ivory-Bills: Stories of Extinction and Hope
Not long after moving in 1989 from lively Bloomington, Ind., to less lively Manhattan, Kan., where my wife had taken a tenure-track job, we spotted some escaped exotic conures while birding at a marsh. In the process of identifying them -- which took several scans of field guides back at our apartment and a phone call to an experienced local birder -- I learned that the eastern third of the United States was once home to the indigenous, now-vanished Carolina parakeet. Indeed, these
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