Extinct Parrots

[zandperl]

I was hunting around Wikipedia today, and decided to make a list of extinct parrots. Here they are, ordered from longest ago extinct to most recently lost, with links to Wikipedia for more info. For each one I have the common name, species name, where they were located, when last seen, and cause of extinction.

1. Saint Croix Macaw (Ara autocthones) - US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, prehistoric - possibly used by the indigenous peoples
2. Norfolk Island Kākā (Nestor productus) - Norfolk Island (off eastern Australia), 1851 - hunting and trapping by European settlers
3. Cuban Red Macaw (Ara tricolor) - Cuba, 1864 - deforestation, hunting
4. Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) - eastern North America, 1918 - deforestation for framing, killed as pests, invasive species (honey bees)
5. Glaucous Macaw (Anodorhynchus glaucus) - South America, believed recently extinct (last sighted 1960) - habitat loss, trapping, food source loss
6. Sinú Parakeet (Pyrrhura picta subandina) - northern South America, believed recently extinct