Bill is generally fond of going back to the archive in these matters, so I thought I'd give it a try:
"Our Parakeets are very rapidly diminishing in number; and in some districts, where twenty-five years ago they were plentiful, scarcely any are now to be seen. At that period, they could be procured as far up the tributary waters of the Ohio as the Great Kenhawa, the Scioto, the heads of Miami, the mouth of the Manimee at its junction with Lake Erie, on the Illinois river, and sometimes as far north-east as Lake Ontario, and along the eastern districts as far as the boundary line between Virginia and Maryland. At the present day, very few are to be found higher than Cincinnati, nor is it until you reach the mouth of the Ohio that Parakeets are met with in considerable numbers. I should think that along the Mississippi there is not now half the number that existed fifteen years ago."
-J.J. Audubon, ca. 1830
http://www.audubon.org/birds-of-america/carolina-parrot
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From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Whan
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 7:59 AM
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Subject: [Ohio-birds] NY Times article
This morning's Times has a great article on parrots: recommended at
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/science/parrots-are-a-lot-more-than-pretty-bird.html?_r=0
Lots of other fine articles--photos of Pluto! yucky story on southern pine beetles and their threat to Ohio forests-- among others.
Bill Whan
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