The Native American Parrot That Went Extinct
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One might very well picture parrots as colorful, tropical animals that hardly ever get out of rainforests, but North America, in fact, hosted its own native species. This brightly colored bird painted our eastern skies for centuries before vanishing entirely. A comprehensive evolutionary analysis published in Current Biology titled "Evolutionary History and Extinction of the Only Native Parrot in the Western United States" details how quickly human expansion reshaped this avian ecosystem forever.