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In America there was once a gem in The Great Forest; a winged jewel rivalling any in the tropics. It was the Carolina Parakeet, North America's only native parrot. Curiously, within the span of a century, the great flocks dwindled to nothing, and this thing of beauty disappeared. This is the sobering story of how a young nation loved, laid waste and lost its only parrot.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Colorless, December 6, 2007 By  Sean (Kingsport, TN USA) - See all my reviews This book was an easy, enjoyable read, with nice anecdotal tales of the past when the Carolina Parakeet still flourished in America. I was extremely disappointed, however, that the author's research on available artwork containing the Carolina Parakeet was wasted on black and white illustrations. I know that many of her cited illustrations were originally color images, but were converted to black and white images for this publication. Unfortunately, the publishers bait readers with color illustrations on the book cover, but there is not one color illustration within the pages of the book. In the 21st century, I would expect to have color reproductions of artwork which was originally in color. This is especially true for a book whose title includes "America's lost parrot in Art and Memory". When an art book on a now extinct species is published, the colored artwork should not be converted to black and white