SciShow hey I live in New Orleans, and there’s a pigeon sized green/yellow parrot looking bird that lives in the city, mostly along canal street in the palm trees. Have y’all ever heard of them? It’d be a cool topic
Thick-Billed Parrots are native and were missing for a long time here. Attempts were made to reintroduce them to Arizona, but I'm not sure if it was successful, or how recent.
Yep, as someone who studies parrots, I miss these dudes. God, I want a miracle with these suckers where we find out they aren't really gone just close to it.
As awsome as bringing these animals back would be i feel like its more important to save the animals that were about to lose like for example the ivory billed wood pecker, the amur leopard, the javan rhino and to something everybody knows about and probably doesn't know is critically endangered just lemurs in general once we can save them then we can worry about bringing back what is already lost
When I was a child, in central NC in a large wooded area I saw some birds that looked remarkably like this bird. There weren't many in the area, maybe a dozen. No idea if they still exist in that same area and no idea if they were just released pets, but they were tricky to spot. They were deep in the woods in an area of roughly a couple thousand acres of woodland near a clearing which had a stream running nearby. They blend in very well in the woods.
Jenday Conures look a whole lot like Carolina Parakeets. There are no established populations of exotic parrots in North Carolina but there are escaped pets all the time.
@@Cillana Due to the number I saw, I doubt they were simply escaped pets unless they managed to survive our winters and reproduced. Some years after spotted those, in an area about 10 miles away, I spotted other unusual birds that I haven't been able to identify. They were tiny and colorful, but I have never seen those since (different bird from what I mentioned in original comment).
If that was true, contact Forrest Galante on social media. He has a TV show on Animal Planet call Extinct or Alive where he tries to find extinct species and he found some of them!!
Its always interesting when there are writings from the 13 colonies before they left England about these bright colorful birds, and almost all of them are calling the birds pests. =( It wasn't until they had almost died out that people tried to save them, because they realized they weren't eating the crops but instead the plants that would take over the farms killing the crops.
I was researching early immigrants to Missouri and they mention seeing a Parakeet. I thought the person was crazy until a few other sources said the same thing .
Oh dang they were in the conure family??? I have some green cheek conures, they would have been amazing to get to know, these birds are just amazing to have around.
Here in Amsterdam, a woman had Indian ringneck parakeets as pets for years. When she got old and moved, she let a couple out free to live in the Vondelpark. Now over 30 years later there are over 20,000 of them flying all around town, looking quite out of place but very pretty nonetheless...
Thank you for the focus on this lost but not forgotten (and now hopefully remembered by a few more people!) species! The CP has actually been immortalized along with a few other “lost birds” in art installations for “The Lost Bird Project” an artist made statues of the birds and went the extra mile and installed each of them in locations significant to the individual species. The CP now can be “seen again” in Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park In Florida, located approximately 25 miles north of Okeechobee, off US 441.
There're a a few flocks of parrots flying around in San Diego. Doing a quick search, I found that these birds came from former captive birds that eventually multiplied over the decades. The local vegetation has allowed them to survive and there's speculation that San Diego may become on of the few remaining ideal habitats for them due to deforestation in South America. Also, they sound hilarious and are fascinating to watch as they fly over your neighborhood.
@@thethoughtfulcartoonist3349 Mitred Conures, Red-masked Conures, Blue-crowned Conures, Red-crowned Amazons, and Lilac-crowned Amazons Here's a link to an article www.10news.com/lifestyle/exploring-san-diego/how-the-wild-parrots-of-san-diego-arrived-in-americas-finest-city
In LA there are flocks of macaws, as well as assorted smaller parrots. Original population came from bush gardens. The smaller parrots originally were (most likely) from pet escapes.
Yes, having a twilight because of a massive number of birds flying overhead would have been quite the sight. It's hard to imagine how quickly such large populations were wiped out. It makes me both sad and angry.
I have that exact same poster print that's in the thumbnail hanging up by the stairs. Never knew what those birds were, but I see them every morning. Makes me sad thinking that I'll only ever see those lovely faces on a poster.
We have the dna, we have the technology, we have multiple other, probably similar, species of parrots... why aren't we investing in the deextinction of species like this? Ones that were lost recently and have left us with the stuff to work with.
@R3d D0t i honestly feel that the technology should be more public than it is. It'll be easier to progress if more people, especially common people who normally dont have a part in this stuff, could actually contribute more readily.
@@MrBlack0950 i'll be honest, i don't want normal people to have the power of eugenics. cause more likely than not, they'd use it on people as well. i'd rather it stay in labs.
@@bengoodwin2141 not necessarily, im not able to speak definitively, but im sure that there some parts that aren't completely inhospitable, with a bit of cleanup, there could easily be the habits for them
I remember when I was about 13, my father and I saw a little green bird with a yellow head in the woods near our house. He said it was a Carolina parakeet, and he told me he had seen only a few in his life. I've never seen another bird outside a pet shop that looked like it.
It’s really interesting considering the pictures you used, some of them were painted by Jean-Jacques-Fougère Audubon who was known to hunt over 100 species of birds daily so he could study and paint them. He probably contributed to the extinction...
Imagine being that last Carolina parakeet living in the same cage as the last Passenger Pigeon had done. That would be the bird equivalent of the Cecil Hotel.
The monks are a very hardy species. They have colonies in NYC. There is a large colony in a Hasidim community. These orthodox people do not keep pets (maybe goldfish) in their homes. But they do love the parrots that make nests in the trees and telephone poles.
Apparently when people hunted them when one got shot instead of the rest flying away they would go down to one that got shot and panic and become very easy targets
Well, at least there are some species of parrot that can handle living in a human dominated environment. There's a neighborhood in my town that has a flock of feral parakeets nesting in the rungs of a water tower. The city has to have the nests torn up for water tower maintenance every now an then, but they always rebuild.
I have seen those parakeets before in West Virginia and close up too. It could just be a different green parrot species but the similarities are amazing.
This is still happening in the Carolinas. Nothing has been learned. They are still clearing land for automotive companies moving south & building crowded subdivisions. Google Earth shows it. 😢 We use to love in a house but the google map was just forest for a couple years. They left literally no trees behind. We ended up moving away and focusing on finding somewhere more nature focused.
Nobody Knows actually, I didn’t know as I was new to the area and relocated for work. Our house was already built. There are subdivisions that have been built without clearing every single tree. Some places are making requirements that x% of trees need to stay with new subs or that each property has x trees left on it. This place wasn’t doing that. It was clearing everything in its path because of convenience. (Hard lesson learned on my part. I’ve grown and will definitely do more research before the next home.)
This episode was awesome. I’d never heard of that parrot and afterwards spent 3 hours or so watching other videos and reading. Crazy interesting. Thanks!
The 20th Century is a bit late for the "European settlers" excuse. Anyone can contribute to the decline of a species, especially if habitat decline and wildlife trafficking are involved.
@@Christopher-N You're probably right insofar as to be based in industrialization as the killing blow, but this was a long-term byproduct of european settlers at the same time. I'll just chalk it up to "humans" like scishow did.
There’s a town in New Jersey right next to New York. There’s parakeets there looks just like the one that this gentleman is talking about. They suddenly came out of nowhere and over there by the hundreds they are nurses in the powerlines trees. It’s fascinating.
Not endemic but still genuinely living most of their lives in the US southwest is the thick-billed parrot. When ranchers and others started chopping down large swaths on pinyon pines for grazing and other reasons the birds died out here and then mostly lived in Mexico. It would be cool to grow mass amounts of pinyon pines [we need trees anyway] and have the bird return permanently. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thick-billed_parrot
If the Carolina Parakeet lived up to New York, wouldn’t that mean they would have to fight for habitat from the passenger pigeons? How did they managed to live up there?
Love the video! Id recommend looking into the crypted parrots of the early exploration of south America or the Cuban macaw if yall ever need more bird video topics.
I’m not usually an advocate for optimism about animals possibly not being extinct, but I saw a bird eerily similar to the Carolina parakeet a couple years ago in Southeastern Nebraska.... couldn’t find a bird that matched the description until you showed this one... weird...
My theory: They we’re pretty and noisy. Humans are horrible beings that tend to kill things that annoy them and things things with pretty skin(feathers and fur included). We killed them.
Matt Cuetzpalin Yeah....because Asia has done so well in preserving their land’s natural beauty and keeping it pollution free, and Africa has been amazing us all with how well they’ve been able to keep their endangered animals from being sold as Bush Meat or used in superstitious rituals to ward of bad spirits.... Oh wait....
Tree Ring Or smog. It’s pretty well known that parrots are scarily easy to accidentally asphyxiate if you so much as leave a candle burning in the same room as them if the room is small and not well ventilated; and non-stick pans will definitely kill them if you burn them. So...coal dust and coal smog in addition to intentional hunting and general habitat loss
Damn, that really sucks. It would've been really amazing to see parrots flapping around the USA. More sad knowing that most parrots are or will soon be endangered, or threatened.
There is also evidence that a Canadian species of parrot made a brief appearance in the not-too-distant past. Unfortunately, being non-migratory, this species was prone to seasonal extinction.
We have parakeets in SE London. Lots of them. They became established in the 80s. Apparently, they're a species that lives naturally in the foothills of the Himalayas, hence they are sufficiently cold-adapted to survive London winters.
That's certainly one hypothesis. Prior to Hurricane Harvey making landfall in Southeast Texas in 2017, there were several flocks of green parrots living in the League City area. They disappeared following the Hurricane, which certainly was not due to the action of humans. There may have been other natural events that influenced the disappearance of the South Carolina Parakeet as well.
One of the most important birds in America! It's an indicator species that if it goes, nobody would be able to live in America. Imagine a dust bowl the size of a third of North America. Not just that but it is a really cool bird all together for many reasons. Out of all I collected so far it is by far the most sacred. middle right tattoos on my profile photo.
You mean we could have had colorful, adorable little parakeets flying around where I live eating all the burrs?! Darn you, my ancestors, why'd you have to go and ruin it for us?!
I found a heartwarming fact about the Carolina parakeet. In the winter the birds would huddle together side-by-side for warmth inside hollow trees. They were very social birds, and mated for life, sticking together for years. They could live for over 30 years.
around @4:00: "the US may never have another endemic parrot" *We already do: Monk parakeets (aka Quaker parrots) have been established in the wild around Austin, Texas, since the 1970's* [www.austin360.com/article/20111112/lifestyle/181209394] and there are local guides who arrange tours featuring the birds. (Some people there appear to hope they'll help drive out the grackles.)
Endemic being previously defined as "native only to this area", although I've seen different definitions for endemic given based on the topic. Quaker parrots have indeed setup show, which is nice that someone's filling a similar role, but not quite endemic, by their definition.
@@YCCCm7 yeah, but the way he phrased it--"may never have another endemic parrot"--makes the writers' intentions ambiguous, as per what you mention about its waffling usage
"The United States may never have another parrot" Ha ha! Can you say Monk Parakeet? It's here. It's tough and we will probably regret it. I kind of hope they prosper though. 😉 Cheers, Chris
There are large parakeets living in flocks in greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn NY , as well as around Brooklyn collage . They escaped from a shipment destined to go to petshops and they are thriving in the wilds of Brooklyn lol🤗🤗😁
What I read here in South Carolina is that they said that birds were in the grain fields and such so they went out with basically punt cannons and killed as many of them as they could as fast as they could.
There are wild parrots in a city in California called redlands. I grew up there. The story goes that they were released pets and have been around for decades
My friend has a tin can from the 1800’s with two of the parakeets on it and I collected a 50th anniversary plate that has a pair as well. My little sun conure is kinda like the Carolina :D
I saw a couple large green parrots up in north jersey. It was a trio of them and they kept eating apples off our apple trees. I thought they maybe escaped from someone's home, haven't seen them since.
It’s like people in the 1800s were oblivious to wild life until it starts to affect their land or they way they live and it’s not until the animal is almost extinct they are like “oh crap. Hunting this animal was a bad idea.” However I wouldn’t be surprised if one day we just see the parrot flying around one day and figure out I wasn’t extinct. God I hope that happens
I remember when I was a kid visiting my grandparents in Connecticut, there were big flocks of monk parakeets I wouldn’t shut up, it was crazy to me… I never thought there would be that many living in Connecticut of all places, I really wish there were more species of parrots and parakeets living in the north US
Could the industrial fumes be at least somewhat responsible? Since parrots have very sensitive lungs, pet parrots can die if their owners cook with bad kind of pans for example, because those release fumes parrots are susceptible to.
I would call this extinction event as one caused by European colonialism specifically, as humans lived in North America as early as 13,000 years ago according to pre-clovis theory. Stating that the parrot's sudden extinction is broadly due to living alongside humans discounts the existence of Native Americans leading up to their extinction.
Evan though there are lots of extinct species of parrots, parrots are some of the most adaptable and smart birds that exist I wouldn’t say that they are vulnerable.
mosquitobight it’s crazier for me because this showed up in my recommended just days after visiting my university’s biodiversity collection and they were explaining the history of their taxidermied Carolina parakeet
I’m willing to believe that they may be extinct. But I never knew these birds existed. I grew up in south Kansas and back in high school during the summer of 2010 I was riding my bike around town. Next to the fire house there’s a flock of 6 parrots that look just like that on the side of the road. They’re being super loud and looking around in the grass. I stopped and watched them for about 5-10 minutes. They saw me freaked out and flew northwest. Never saw them again and nobody had ever seen them either. So maybe they’re not extinct? Or someone just happened to lose 6 identical sized and colored parrots? Who knows.
ZOO STAFF #1 - "This is the LAST living Carolina parrot, so where is the SAFEST place to house it?" ZOO STAFF #2 - "How about the very SAME cage that the last passenger pigeon DIED in?" [Both think for a moment then shrug] ZOO STAFF#1 - "Sure - can't imagine why not."
For a little bit, i wondered if the feral/escaped green parrots that hang out in Los Angeles could be taking these guys' empty niche, but then you showed the map and i guess they never lived in California.
Anybody know of the current green parrots or parakeets that roam around North America? Currently looking at a small flock hanging around here eating the seeds off the mesquite trees here in west Texas
I can confirm that there are parrots in New York. Greenwood Cemetery is home to a large parrot population. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe they got there when someone was making a delivery but the crate broke and released all the parrots. Regardless if that’s true or not there are most definitely parrots in Greenwood I see them almost daily.
Interesting fact about the plant ... its obviously growing out of control without a specialist feeder The cocklebur is legally listed as a noxious weed in the states of Arkansas and Iowa in the United States of America.
When I lived in Gulfport, Florida, every evening, right at dusk, huge flocks of green parrots would come and inhabit the telephone wires and palm trees, all up and down the coastline. And they would make a racket, I will tell you that! I don't know if green parrot is there actual name, or if that's what people just call them. Or if they're even endemic or invasive. However, I can attest to one thing, there are a lot of them there.
Invasive, and there are several subspecies of green parrots. The proper popular name is Amazon green parrot... However in addition there are several green birds in the parrot family that can be mistaken for the Amazon.
@@duanesamuelson2256 A friend sent me a link, that said it was probably a Quaker parrot, also known as a monk parakeet. The photos seem to match up with what I observed. Apparently they are an invasive species that have a colony in the Tampa Bay area. From the information that I gathered, they don't really hurt anything, so people pretty much leave them alone, unless they build one of their giant weaver nests on power line poles. This can, of course, cause problems.
@@sussekind9717 I live in Florida, used to have a daily flock of blue and gold macaws at the feeder at my dad's house daily. In addition there were multiple species of smaller parrots (Amazons, conures) that would also come by, but would leave when the bigger parrots arrived. There are Quaker colonies in TX, IL and I'm sure elsewhere, however I wasn't talking about them in Florida.
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SciShow hey I live in New Orleans, and there’s a pigeon sized green/yellow parrot looking bird that lives in the city, mostly along canal street in the palm trees. Have y’all ever heard of them? It’d be a cool topic
Thick-Billed Parrots are native and were missing for a long time here. Attempts were made to reintroduce them to Arizona, but I'm not sure if it was successful, or how recent.
Yep, as someone who studies parrots, I miss these dudes.
God, I want a miracle with these suckers where we find out they aren't really gone just close to it.
As awsome as bringing these animals back would be i feel like its more important to save the animals that were about to lose like for example the ivory billed wood pecker, the amur leopard, the javan rhino and to something everybody knows about and probably doesn't know is critically endangered just lemurs in general once we can save them then we can worry about bringing back what is already lost
It might not be impossible, given that US conservation efforts would have kicked in right about then
Kakapo parrot is also endangered. It's a flightless parrot (who looks pretty derpy if you ask me).
TheUndeadslayer221 it’s like a dodo parrot
@@rstriker21 It's still a pretty bird... I still think it looks derp faced.
I have my grandfather's 1940s bird guide book and it has the Carolina parakeet. As probably extinct, but still, it's cool to see
"A diet of literal poison was nothing compared to the effects of living alongside humans."
Well, then.
sadly
This is just as sad as what happened to passenger pigeon that was hunted to extinction.
Lol
The most abundant animal in America also. How did they not survive I wonder.
True
@@MatanuskaHIGH SciShow has actually made a video about that already. Go look it up.
@UberKrassMann god damn, looks like the comments OP username perfectly describes you.
When I was a child, in central NC in a large wooded area I saw some birds that looked remarkably like this bird. There weren't many in the area, maybe a dozen. No idea if they still exist in that same area and no idea if they were just released pets, but they were tricky to spot. They were deep in the woods in an area of roughly a couple thousand acres of woodland near a clearing which had a stream running nearby. They blend in very well in the woods.
Jenday Conures look a whole lot like Carolina Parakeets. There are no established populations of exotic parrots in North Carolina but there are escaped pets all the time.
@@Cillana Due to the number I saw, I doubt they were simply escaped pets unless they managed to survive our winters and reproduced. Some years after spotted those, in an area about 10 miles away, I spotted other unusual birds that I haven't been able to identify. They were tiny and colorful, but I have never seen those since (different bird from what I mentioned in original comment).
Very likely to be Monk Parakeets. They've been sighted in several locations throughout North Carolina.
If that was true, contact Forrest Galante on social media. He has a TV show on Animal Planet call Extinct or Alive where he tries to find extinct species and he found some of them!!
@@matthewwelsh294 Done and done.
Sadly, the first I'd ever heard of this bird was from Red Dead Redemption 2.
Yup. And you can hunt them to extinction in game.
@@duganelliott8340 XD
Its always interesting when there are writings from the 13 colonies before they left England about these bright colorful birds, and almost all of them are calling the birds pests.
=(
It wasn't until they had almost died out that people tried to save them, because they realized they weren't eating the crops but instead the plants that would take over the farms killing the crops.
Damn humans!!
Oh
Well, pre-20th century humans can be pretty dumb sometimes
@@ekosubandie2094 that colonialism for you
Eko Subandie
In general it’s a learning process
I was researching early immigrants to Missouri and they mention seeing a Parakeet. I thought the person was crazy until a few other sources said the same thing .
Being Australian, I can't imagine not having parrots around. We have so many different kinds and you find them almost everywhere here.
Yep even in temperate suburbs, they’re here
Here In Brazil we have a lot of species of macaws and parrots too, I love my country because this
I wrote about and illustrated these birds in my thesis! I wish they weren't extinct. It's so sad.
No need to be sad. They found a small group in Honduras and they already have a female in captivity and are tracking down a male.
It is sad, but that's so cool that this was your thesis! Is there any way to read this?
@@jjaystar94 Unfortunately not online, but I have a video of the art part of it
I've always been baffled that no one established a captive breeding stock. All indications are that, as might be well expected, they made good pets.
I’ve seen these birds in the 90s in the Caribbean people kept them as pets, so no, they we’re not extinct in 1918.
Oh dang they were in the conure family??? I have some green cheek conures, they would have been amazing to get to know, these birds are just amazing to have around.
Here in Amsterdam, a woman had Indian ringneck parakeets as pets for years. When she got old and moved, she let a couple out free to live in the Vondelpark. Now over 30 years later there are over 20,000 of them flying all around town, looking quite out of place but very pretty nonetheless...
Thank you for the focus on this lost but not forgotten (and now hopefully remembered by a few more people!) species! The CP has actually been immortalized along with a few other “lost birds” in art installations for “The Lost Bird Project” an artist made statues of the birds and went the extra mile and installed each of them in locations significant to the individual species. The CP now can be “seen again” in Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park In Florida, located approximately 25 miles north of Okeechobee, off US 441.
There're a a few flocks of parrots flying around in San Diego. Doing a quick search, I found that these birds came from former captive birds that eventually multiplied over the decades. The local vegetation has allowed them to survive and there's speculation that San Diego may become on of the few remaining ideal habitats for them due to deforestation in South America.
Also, they sound hilarious and are fascinating to watch as they fly over your neighborhood.
Are you referring to cherry headed conures?
@@thethoughtfulcartoonist3349 Mitred Conures, Red-masked Conures, Blue-crowned Conures, Red-crowned Amazons, and Lilac-crowned Amazons
Here's a link to an article www.10news.com/lifestyle/exploring-san-diego/how-the-wild-parrots-of-san-diego-arrived-in-americas-finest-city
There's flocks of Quaker parrots north Texas that have made themselves at home.
In LA there are flocks of macaws, as well as assorted smaller parrots. Original population came from bush gardens.
The smaller parrots originally were (most likely) from pet escapes.
Good man named Arthur made them extinct
Could you please do one on the Passenger Pigeon? I’m currently writing my History Capstone paper about the species and it is fascinating!
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Yes, having a twilight because of a massive number of birds flying overhead would have been quite the sight. It's hard to imagine how quickly such large populations were wiped out. It makes me both sad and angry.
I have that exact same poster print that's in the thumbnail hanging up by the stairs. Never knew what those birds were, but I see them every morning. Makes me sad thinking that I'll only ever see those lovely faces on a poster.
wait till you search up the story of the painter of your poster. Audubon’s work depended heavily on hunting and killing birds :((
don't worry, in a few decades or maybe a century, these animals may fly again
Being from Louisiana, it would’ve been cool seeing parrots in the swamp :(
Thanks, Michael, for another great episode. I love your delivery style and always enjoy watching. Keep it up!
I love shows with Michael!
We have the dna, we have the technology, we have multiple other, probably similar, species of parrots... why aren't we investing in the deextinction of species like this? Ones that were lost recently and have left us with the stuff to work with.
@R3d D0t i honestly feel that the technology should be more public than it is. It'll be easier to progress if more people, especially common people who normally dont have a part in this stuff, could actually contribute more readily.
@@MrBlack0950 i'll be honest, i don't want normal people to have the power of eugenics. cause more likely than not, they'd use it on people as well. i'd rather it stay in labs.
@@VolvagiasBlaze there are laws against stuff like that, my point was that science, in my opinion, is too restrictive for its own good.
They would just go extinct again unless in captivity because the environments they needed to live don’t exist anymore
@@bengoodwin2141 not necessarily, im not able to speak definitively, but im sure that there some parts that aren't completely inhospitable, with a bit of cleanup, there could easily be the habits for them
Kea to the rest of the parrots. "Do you even lift bro?"
Kakapo to the rest of the parrots "Do you even eat bro?"
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I remember when I was about 13, my father and I saw a little green bird with a yellow head in the woods near our house. He said it was a Carolina parakeet, and he told me he had seen only a few in his life. I've never seen another bird outside a pet shop that looked like it.
It’s really interesting considering the pictures you used, some of them were painted by Jean-Jacques-Fougère Audubon who was known to hunt over 100 species of birds daily so he could study and paint them. He probably contributed to the extinction...
Imagine being that last Carolina parakeet living in the same cage as the last Passenger Pigeon had done. That would be the bird equivalent of the Cecil Hotel.
Could it be that monk parakeets are grafting themselves into the opening left by the carolina parakeet?
The monks are a very hardy species. They have colonies in NYC. There is a large colony in a Hasidim community. These orthodox people do not keep pets (maybe goldfish) in their homes. But they do love the parrots that make nests in the trees and telephone poles.
@@roxyshow123 That Hasidim community is an unorthodox diabolical sect. The Catholic religion is the only true religion.
@@sedevacante966 Every sect, in every part of the world, is the only true religion.
Apparently when people hunted them when one got shot instead of the rest flying away they would go down to one that got shot and panic and become very easy targets
I think we should bring these animals back, I think it could be done with the appropriate funding
As someone living in the USA and is a parent to a green cheek conure the fact these went extinct make me terribly sad.
They were hunted into extinction - so sad
Well, at least there are some species of parrot that can handle living in a human dominated environment. There's a neighborhood in my town that has a flock of feral parakeets nesting in the rungs of a water tower. The city has to have the nests torn up for water tower maintenance every now an then, but they always rebuild.
Jurassic Park, step 1:
Bring back the Carolina Parakeet.
Thank you Arthur for make this bird extinct
Damn, you, John Marston.
Always a pity when an animal goes extinct.
I have seen those parakeets before in West Virginia and close up too. It could just be a different green parrot species but the similarities are amazing.
You mightve seen a monk parakeet
@@eder7468 omg you are correct. monk parrots are adorable!
This is still happening in the Carolinas. Nothing has been learned.
They are still clearing land for automotive companies moving south & building crowded subdivisions.
Google Earth shows it. 😢 We use to love in a house but the google map was just forest for a couple years. They left literally no trees behind.
We ended up moving away and focusing on finding somewhere more nature focused.
Nobody Knows Idiot moment
Nobody Knows actually, I didn’t know as I was new to the area and relocated for work. Our house was already built. There are subdivisions that have been built without clearing every single tree. Some places are making requirements that x% of trees need to stay with new subs or that each property has x trees left on it. This place wasn’t doing that. It was clearing everything in its path because of convenience. (Hard lesson learned on my part. I’ve grown and will definitely do more research before the next home.)
This episode was awesome. I’d never heard of that parrot and afterwards spent 3 hours or so watching other videos and reading. Crazy interesting. Thanks!
Scishow: "what ever happened to this animal"
European settlers:"lol idk"
The 20th Century is a bit late for the "European settlers" excuse. Anyone can contribute to the decline of a species, especially if habitat decline and wildlife trafficking are involved.
@@Christopher-N nah that's exactly what it is.
@@Christopher-N You're probably right insofar as to be based in industrialization as the killing blow, but this was a long-term byproduct of european settlers at the same time. I'll just chalk it up to "humans" like scishow did.
This was the best Carolina Parakeet video I've seen all day!
There’s a town in New Jersey right next to New York. There’s parakeets there looks just like the one that this gentleman is talking about. They suddenly came out of nowhere and over there by the hundreds they are nurses in the powerlines trees. It’s fascinating.
Love this show
Why do we all know about the passenger pidgeon, but rarely hear about the Carolina parakeet?
Not endemic but still genuinely living most of their lives in the US southwest is the thick-billed parrot. When ranchers and others started chopping down large swaths on pinyon pines for grazing and other reasons the birds died out here and then mostly lived in Mexico. It would be cool to grow mass amounts of pinyon pines [we need trees anyway] and have the bird return permanently. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thick-billed_parrot
If the Carolina Parakeet lived up to New York, wouldn’t that mean they would have to fight for habitat from the passenger pigeons? How did they managed to live up there?
Love the video! Id recommend looking into the crypted parrots of the early exploration of south America or the Cuban macaw if yall ever need more bird video topics.
I swear I saw a bird just like this at my aunt's camp as a kid. I've never seen a similar bird in any of the local books, but this looks like it.
I’m not usually an advocate for optimism about animals possibly not being extinct, but I saw a bird eerily similar to the Carolina parakeet a couple years ago in Southeastern Nebraska.... couldn’t find a bird that matched the description until you showed this one... weird...
There are wild parakeets in Southern California I have seen them in LA, Anaheim, and Orange County
Man this makes me want to cry
My theory: They we’re pretty and noisy. Humans are horrible beings that tend to kill things that annoy them and things things with pretty skin(feathers and fur included). We killed them.
Not a Dog .....Europeans.
Matt Cuetzpalin Yeah....because Asia has done so well in preserving their land’s natural beauty and keeping it pollution free, and Africa has been amazing us all with how well they’ve been able to keep their endangered animals from being sold as Bush Meat or used in superstitious rituals to ward of bad spirits....
Oh wait....
Matt Cuetzpalin They went extinct in the mid 1800s, the people in the US were very much Americans.
Nobody Knows thank you for saying. I was actually wondering if it may have been some kind of virus (sorry can’t help myself) but really
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Or smog. It’s pretty well known that parrots are scarily easy to accidentally asphyxiate if you so much as leave a candle burning in the same room as them if the room is small and not well ventilated; and non-stick pans will definitely kill them if you burn them.
So...coal dust and coal smog in addition to intentional hunting and general habitat loss
I really hope that one day we can clone them with their Jenday or sun conure relatives as a surrogate and reintroduce them :(
I miss those little guys
These look eerily like the parrots that got loose in San Francisco and live there to this day
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Damn, that really sucks. It would've been really amazing to see parrots flapping around the USA. More sad knowing that most parrots are or will soon be endangered, or threatened.
Noah fence any other show host but this man is the only person I will inherently trust for no good reason, like instinctually I’m set at ease
There is also evidence that a Canadian species of parrot made a brief appearance in the not-too-distant past. Unfortunately, being non-migratory, this species was prone to seasonal extinction.
I’ve been binging the SciShow videos with Michael today, it just hit me how attractive he is. Not to mention the informative content is great!
We have parakeets in SE London. Lots of them. They became established in the 80s. Apparently, they're a species that lives naturally in the foothills of the Himalayas, hence they are sufficiently cold-adapted to survive London winters.
Name one good thing that happened to benefit the planet since humans came to the scene, I'll wait.
That's certainly one hypothesis.
Prior to Hurricane Harvey making landfall in Southeast Texas in 2017, there were several flocks of green parrots living in the League City area. They disappeared following the Hurricane, which certainly was not due to the action of humans. There may have been other natural events that influenced the disappearance of the South Carolina Parakeet as well.
Come on de-extinction! I want our little parrot back! Please do a video on the sage grouse before it goes extinct!
My brother used to study the Sage Grouse in North Dakota. Pretty interesting birds
One of the most important birds in America! It's an indicator species that if it goes, nobody would be able to live in America. Imagine a dust bowl the size of a third of North America. Not just that but it is a really cool bird all together for many reasons. Out of all I collected so far it is by far the most sacred. middle right tattoos on my profile photo.
You mean we could have had colorful, adorable little parakeets flying around where I live eating all the burrs?!
Darn you, my ancestors, why'd you have to go and ruin it for us?!
I found a heartwarming fact about the Carolina parakeet.
In the winter the birds would huddle together side-by-side for warmth inside hollow trees.
They were very social birds, and mated for life, sticking together for years. They could live for over 30 years.
around @4:00: "the US may never have another endemic parrot"
*We already do: Monk parakeets (aka Quaker parrots) have been established in the wild around Austin, Texas, since the 1970's*
[www.austin360.com/article/20111112/lifestyle/181209394] and there are local guides who arrange tours featuring the birds. (Some people there appear to hope they'll help drive out the grackles.)
Endemic being previously defined as "native only to this area", although I've seen different definitions for endemic given based on the topic. Quaker parrots have indeed setup show, which is nice that someone's filling a similar role, but not quite endemic, by their definition.
@@YCCCm7 yeah, but the way he phrased it--"may never have another endemic parrot"--makes the writers' intentions ambiguous, as per what you mention about its waffling usage
"The United States may never have another parrot" Ha ha! Can you say Monk Parakeet? It's here. It's tough and we will probably regret it. I kind of hope they prosper though. 😉
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Monk parakeets are locate around North Jersey and NYC :P.
@@jimmybon9314 And on Long Island, New Rochelle NY, and Connecticut.
Cheers,
Chris
There are large parakeets living in flocks in greenwood cemetery in Brooklyn NY , as well as around Brooklyn collage . They escaped from a shipment destined to go to petshops and they are thriving in the wilds of Brooklyn lol🤗🤗😁
In Red Dead Redemption 2 you can hunt these parrots...to extinction.
What I read here in South Carolina is that they said that birds were in the grain fields and such so they went out with basically punt cannons and killed as many of them as they could as fast as they could.
@Nobody Knows I'm not trying to paint a wide brush stroke on what happened to the birds I'm simply stating what happened here in the Carolinas
There are wild parrots in a city in California called redlands. I grew up there. The story goes that they were released pets and have been around for decades
Fifty years ago or so some ring necked parakeets escaped in the UK and now there are thousands here. Very interesting, thanks.
Nice parrot art for thumbnail :O
"Better to eat poison than to live with humans." Then a picture of the parakeet in the middle. That's a SciShow poster merch just waiting to happen.
i never forget the scene in the digimon movie where the giant green parrot was a match against greymon, a t-rex.
Ah I missed this one. Thanks for the upload!
My friend has a tin can from the 1800’s with two of the parakeets on it and I collected a 50th anniversary plate that has a pair as well. My little sun conure is kinda like the Carolina :D
I saw a couple large green parrots up in north jersey. It was a trio of them and they kept eating apples off our apple trees. I thought they maybe escaped from someone's home, haven't seen them since.
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That's right, and who give DNA ? WOMEN!
It’s like people in the 1800s were oblivious to wild life until it starts to affect their land or they way they live and it’s not until the animal is almost extinct they are like “oh crap. Hunting this animal was a bad idea.”
However I wouldn’t be surprised if one day we just see the parrot flying around one day and figure out I wasn’t extinct.
God I hope that happens
I remember when I was a kid visiting my grandparents in Connecticut, there were big flocks of monk parakeets I wouldn’t shut up, it was crazy to me… I never thought there would be that many living in Connecticut of all places, I really wish there were more species of parrots and parakeets living in the north US
Could the industrial fumes be at least somewhat responsible? Since parrots have very sensitive lungs, pet parrots can die if their owners cook with bad kind of pans for example, because those release fumes parrots are susceptible to.
I would call this extinction event as one caused by European colonialism specifically, as humans lived in North America as early as 13,000 years ago according to pre-clovis theory.
Stating that the parrot's sudden extinction is broadly due to living alongside humans discounts the existence of Native Americans leading up to their extinction.
Why are parrots so vulnerable?
Evan though there are lots of extinct species of parrots, parrots are some of the most adaptable and smart birds that exist
I wouldn’t say that they are vulnerable.
They were so communal that when one was shot all the rest would fly down and hover around it, leading them to their doom.
This is uncanny, I was reading the Wikipedia article about parrots just yesterday
mosquitobight it’s crazier for me because this showed up in my recommended just days after visiting my university’s biodiversity collection and they were explaining the history of their taxidermied Carolina parakeet
For another bird one, I'd recommend the Imperial Woodpecker, Imperial Dreams is a great adventure story
I’m willing to believe that they may be extinct. But I never knew these birds existed. I grew up in south Kansas and back in high school during the summer of 2010 I was riding my bike around town. Next to the fire house there’s a flock of 6 parrots that look just like that on the side of the road. They’re being super loud and looking around in the grass. I stopped and watched them for about 5-10 minutes. They saw me freaked out and flew northwest. Never saw them again and nobody had ever seen them either. So maybe they’re not extinct? Or someone just happened to lose 6 identical sized and colored parrots? Who knows.
ZOO STAFF #1 - "This is the LAST living Carolina parrot, so where is the SAFEST place to house it?"
ZOO STAFF #2 - "How about the very SAME cage that the last passenger pigeon DIED in?"
[Both think for a moment then shrug]
ZOO STAFF#1 - "Sure - can't imagine why not."
There's parrots living around Coit Tower in San Francisco. I'm not sure if they are native, but they are so cool.
Those damn cockleburs are everywhere. I wish we still had those parrots to keep them in check, even a little.
For a little bit, i wondered if the feral/escaped green parrots that hang out in Los Angeles could be taking these guys' empty niche, but then you showed the map and i guess they never lived in California.
Bring them back 🥺
Anybody know of the current green parrots or parakeets that roam around North America? Currently looking at a small flock hanging around here eating the seeds off the mesquite trees here in west Texas
I can confirm that there are parrots in New York. Greenwood Cemetery is home to a large parrot population. Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe they got there when someone was making a delivery but the crate broke and released all the parrots. Regardless if that’s true or not there are most definitely parrots in Greenwood I see them almost daily.
Interesting fact about the plant ... its obviously growing out of control without a specialist feeder
The cocklebur is legally listed as a noxious weed in the states of Arkansas and Iowa in the United States of America.
When I lived in Gulfport, Florida, every evening, right at dusk, huge flocks of green parrots would come and inhabit the telephone wires and palm trees, all up and down the coastline. And they would make a racket, I will tell you that!
I don't know if green parrot is there actual name, or if that's what people just call them. Or if they're even endemic or invasive. However, I can attest to one thing, there are a lot of them there.
Invasive, and there are several subspecies of green parrots.
The proper popular name is Amazon green parrot...
However in addition there are several green birds in the parrot family that can be mistaken for the Amazon.
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A friend sent me a link, that said it was probably a Quaker parrot, also known as a monk parakeet.
The photos seem to match up with what I observed.
Apparently they are an invasive species that have a colony in the Tampa Bay area.
From the information that I gathered, they don't really hurt anything, so people pretty much leave them alone, unless they build one of their giant weaver nests on power line poles.
This can, of course, cause problems.
@@sussekind9717 I live in Florida, used to have a daily flock of blue and gold macaws at the feeder at my dad's house daily. In addition there were multiple species of smaller parrots (Amazons, conures) that would also come by, but would leave when the bigger parrots arrived.
There are Quaker colonies in TX, IL and I'm sure elsewhere, however I wasn't talking about them in Florida.
The fact that the parrot went extinct isn't 'on us'; the people who killed it off are themselves dead.
If we were to bring back any animal jurassic park style, my vote is on these cute little guys.
We have so many parrots 🦜 in south Florida. I wonder if the Carolina parakeet has bred with the green parrots 🦜 here.
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I see so much about bringing back the passenger pigeon, but if I had to choose I’d rather have these little parakeets.