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From: sandee@sun16 (Daan Sandee)
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Subject: Re: Carolina Parakeet (US Endemic Bird Species)
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Date: 12 Sep 90 20:46:32 GMT
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In article <35658@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) writes:
>[ .. ]
>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

The nominate subspecies of Austral Parakeet (Microsittace f. ferruginea)
lives on Tierra del Fuego and the immediately adjacent mainland. Tierra del
Fuego reaches 55 S latitude. South of there, there's only Antarctica and some
islands.

Daan Sandee                                           sandee@sun16.scri.fsu.edu
Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052  (904) 644-7045