Wildlife

Carolina parakeet

Conuropsis carolinensis
Habitat
At mouth of Kaw (Kansas) River
Conservation
Extinct

Seen by Corps along Missouri in some numbers as far as Omaha. Declined rapidly through 1800s, species extinct by 1914.

Journal References

1 journal entry mentions Carolina parakeet

Jun 26 1804
Arrival at the Mouth of the Kansas River
...t. This river is Muddy at this time." Clark also noted the Carolina parakeet (which he called "Parrot queets"), a species that would later become extinct in the early 20th cent...

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