: Without a trip to the garage packing boxes for my parrot book, I can't be : specific - but from memory - Pretty good memory job! I pulled a book off my shelf just now, "The Birder's Handbook," by Ehrlich, Dobkin and Wheye. Here is a summary: Carolina Parakeet (sometimes called Illinois Parakeet by Europeans). Only member of the parakeet family native to the US. Yellow head, orange mask, green body, bluish wings and tail. Abundant agricultural pests. A trait that helped seal their doom was that the flocks would return to fallen comrades, perhaps to mob the predator (others have suggested curiosity, or attempts to "waken" the comrade and get it back in the flock). This made them easy targets... the flock might scatter when a shot was fired, but no matter how many were killed, the others would come back to check them out. Also hunted for sport and sale as caged birds. Habitat degradation and destruction also probably factors in their decline and extinction, and perhaps in part also that imported honeybees nested in the same holes favored by the 'keets ---- farmers would often cut down a "bee tree" and move it closer to their own home. Preferred habitat was large stretches of riverine forest. A large social group may have been critical to survival, as with passenger pigeons, so that when a critical limit was reached, they just "faded away." Hope this has been of some interest...... Bryce BStevens@netstarcomm.net Proud Sponsor of RootsWeb and a dedicated Birder!