SciShow: North America's Lost Parrot

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Content of the Lesson: Go to http://Brilliant.org/SciShow to try their computational biology course. The first 200 subscribers get 20% off an annual Premium subscription. When you picture a parrot, you probably don’t picture Denver, but up until about a century ago, the United States was home to its very own species of parrot: the Carolina parakeet. What happened to this endemic bird? Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, Jacob, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/group/parrots/ https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22685766/110475642#geographic-range https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/62296899/132190435#geographic-range https://gizmodo.com/feral-parrots-are-taking-over-america-1834763132 https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Conuropsis_carolinensis/ https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/upf--cpe120519.php https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22685776/93087087#geographic-range https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.3135 https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31438-1 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/upf--cpe120519.php https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2019/12/13/scientists-sequenced-the-genome-of-the-carolina-parakeet-americas-extinct-native-parrot/#1cedb521375f https://reviverestore.org/about-the-passenger-pigeon/ https://www.audubon.org/news/parrots-among-most-threatened-bird-groups https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-015-1036-z https://www.genecards.org/cgi-bin/carddisp.pl?gene=SLC25A4 Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conuropsis_carolinensis_(Carolina_parakeet).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Conuropsis_carolinensis_ludovicianus.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AudubonCarolinaParakeet2.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Live_captive_Carolina_parakeet.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naturalis_Biodiversity_Center_-_RMNH.AVES.110115_-_Conuropsis_carolinensis_subspecies_-_Carolina_Parakeet_-_specimen_-_video.webm https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carolina_Parakeet_-North_Carolina_Museum.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ConuropsisCarolinensis-RedpathMuseumMontreal-June6-08.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karolinasittich_01.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ExtPassCarolinaParakeetMutzelBrehmsTierleben.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pacific_Grove_Museum_of_Natural_History_-_Stierch_-_2018_03.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carolina_Parakeet_Smithsonian.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_natural_history_of_Carolina,_Florida_and_the_Bahama_Islands_(T._11)_BHL42116949.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_history_of_North_American_birds_(8413194439).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Xanthium_strumarium_L..jpg


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