Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!safn2!jbm
From: jbm@safn2.UUCP (John McClatchey)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Carolina Parakeet (US Endemic Bird Species)
Summary: New Zealand Parrots
Message-ID: <539@safn2.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 90 14:06:16 GMT
References: <1191@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> <1990Sep11.164408.3602@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <35658@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Southern Aluminum Finishing, Atlanta, GA
Lines: 18

In article <35658@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>, dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) writes:
> 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.
> 
>Do any parrots in Argentina or Chile extend south of 43?
> 

I don't know about Argentina or Chile or South America but
I recall that there are some very rare parrots in New Zealand
which occupy niches reserved for Crows and scavengers elsewhere.
I think one species is called a Kea.  If they range to the
southern end of the South Island, that would be 46 degrees.
Does anyone know something about this?

John McClatchey