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From: dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark)
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Subject: Re: Carolina Parakeet (US Endemic Bird Species)
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Date: 12 Sep 90 03:40:06 GMT
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In article <1192@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> andrewt@cluster.cs.su.oz (Andrew Taylor) writes:
>
>There are quite few temperate parrots though only a couple in the
>Northen hemisphere. I think the Carolina Parakeet could have been the
>northern-most parrot if it was found further north than the Thick-Billed.

The Carolina Parakeet certainly extended far north of any record of
Thick-billed Parrot.  Thick-billed used to wander north only to southeast
Arizona (probably no records north of 33 degrees latitude), whereas
Carolina Parakeet extended north into Iowa and SE Wisconsin (latitude
about 43).  Thus it extended about as far pole-ward as southern
Tasmania.  Do any parrots in Argentina or Chile extend south of 43?

David Mark
dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu