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Fine-art Carolina Parakeet plate in the Audubon style. America's only native parrot, now lost.
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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 were shot out by the early 1900s, killed as an orchard pest, taken for the millinery trade, and undone by a fatal loyalty: when one fell, the flock wheeled back to it, and the guns took the rest. 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.
Drawn in the Audubon tradition, where the weight of a bird’s history is carried by the accuracy of its line.
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.
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Yes - each print is sized to fit standard frames. Framed finishes are offered on many prints.
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Carolina Parakeet Print