The Carolina Parrot
A flock of the only parrot native to the eastern United States — extinct since 1918.
- Work
- Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, from The Birds of America
- Artist / naturalist
- John James Audubon (engraved by Robert Havell Jr.)
- Origin & date
- London, 1828
- Held by
- Wikimedia Commons
Format
The full-resolution scan, color-managed to the source — yours to print, study, and keep.
Size
$19.00
The story
Audubon crowds this plate with seven Carolina parakeets — feeding, calling, climbing a cocklebur branch in a tangle of green, red, and yellow — the only parrot species ever native to the eastern United States, and one Audubon himself already worried was thinning under relentless hunting for the millinery trade and orchard-protection shooting. His fear proved exact: the species was declared extinct in 1918, when the last known bird, a captive named Incas, died in the same Cincinnati Zoo cage that had held the last passenger pigeon four years earlier. What to notice: this is now less an illustration than a document — the only way most people will ever see what a flock of Carolina parakeets actually looked like alive, painted by a man who had no idea he was recording something that would vanish within his own children's lifetimes.
About this reproduction
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