Georeferenced sighting and specimen occurrence data of the extinct Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) from 1564 - 1944.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite much present-day attention on recently extinct North American birds species, little contemporary research has focused on the Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinesis). While the last captive Carolina parakeet died 100 years ago this year, the Carolina parakeet was officially declared extinct in 1920, but they likely persisted in small, isolated populations until at least the 1930s, and perhaps longer. How this once wide-ranging and plentiful species went extinct remains a mystery. Here, we present a georeferenced dataset of Carolina parakeet sightings spanning nearly 400 years by combining both written observations and specimen data.

New information

Because we include both observations and specimen data, the Carolina parakeet occurrence dataset pre

SUBMITTER: Burgio KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6019437 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature