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Extinct Quotes by Christopher Cokinos
- I read, for the first time, of the Carolina Parakeet-a North American parakeet whose green, yellow and reddish-orange plumage appeared vivacious and altogether quite wonderful.…
- That I had never heard of such a bird did not surprise me.... But others more experienced also did not know of the Carolina Parakeet.…
- Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.
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