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Article: birding; the feeder; Book in brief.(HOME & GARDEN)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- January 25, 2006
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Byline: Jim Williams
"The Carolina Parakeet: Glimpses of a Vanished Bird" by Noel Snyder (Princeton University Press, $29.95) discusses the fate of the only parrot native to the United States.
This green, yellow and orange bird once flew in flocks from Florida to New York and as far west as Colorado. But the last living Carolina parakeet died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918 and the last wild sighting was believed for many years to have been in 1904.
For this book, Snyder spent decades researching the bird and interviewing old hunters and trappers and guides about their recollections of it. The interviews with characters such as Henry "Gator" ...