Seychelles Parakeet

From the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean. The last known individuals were shot in 1893. The forests of the Seychelles were cleared in the 19th century for coconut plantations, and the birds were shot by the plantation owners to protect their crops. Common in 1811, rare by 1867, gone by 1906.

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The Seychelles Parakeet is at the top left. Denis Diderot, Encyclopedie

 

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