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Subject: Re: Carolina Parakeet (US Endemic Bird Species)
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Date: 13 Sep 90 02:15:59 GMT
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In article <35658@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> dmark@acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark)
writes:
>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?

I think several would. Austral Conure occurs on Tierra del Fuego (55 S).
There are parrots on the islands south of New Zealand too. I think
Red-fronted Parakeet was wiped out from Macquarie Island which is the
same latitude as Tierra Del Fuego. Its hard to image parrots living
among Penguins, Petrels, Albatrosses and Elephant Seals.