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Fine-art Carolina Parakeet plate in the Audubon tradition. America's only native parrot, now lost. A considered natural-history and conservation gift, framed or unframed.
Each print is made to order. You can cancel within 12 hours of ordering, after which it goes into production and cannot be cancelled. Secure checkout via Stripe.
America had a parrot. Brilliant green, a golden head, a face the colour of a sunset. Conuropsis carolinensis ranged from New York to the Gulf in noisy flocks, the only parrot the continent ever called its own.
It is gone. The last wild birds disappeared by the early 1900s, lost to habitat clearance, the millinery trade, and a fatal loyalty: when one bird fell, the flock would wheel back to it rather than scatter. The final bird, a male named Incas, died at the Cincinnati Zoo in February 1918, in the same cage where the last Passenger Pigeon had died four years before.
Audubon painted them on a cocklebur, their favourite food, seven birds crowded on one branch. This plate keeps a single bird on that same seeding branch, a quiet portrait of a colour the sky over America does not hold any more. As a piece of natural history it carries real weight, which makes it a considered conservation gift for a collector, a naturalist or anyone drawn to American wildlife history.
Drawn in the Audubon tradition, where the weight of a bird’s history is carried by the accuracy of its line. Browse the full parrot and tropical bird print collection for more.
Available as archival fine-art prints in 8x10, 16x20, and 24x30 inches, with framed and unframed options where available.
Each print is made to order through our global print partner and shipped from the production lab nearest you - allow a few days for printing plus local tracked delivery.
Each print is made to order. You can change or cancel it within 12 hours of ordering. After that it goes into production and can no longer be cancelled, though we will always put right anything that arrives damaged.
The available sizes (up to 24x30 inches) and any framed finishes are shown above. Choose yours before checkout.
Yes - each print is sized to fit standard frames. Framed finishes are offered on many prints.
Because each print is made to order, contact us within 14 days of delivery and we will put it right.
