Editing Carolina parakeet (section)

==Description==
[[File:Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.AVES.110043 - Conuropsis carolinensis carolinensis (Linnaeus, 1758) - Carolina parakeet - specimen - video.webm|thumb|upright|thumbtime=0:05|Turnaround video of a ''C. c. carolinensis'' specimen at [[Naturalis Biodiversity Center]]]]
The Carolina parakeet was a small, green parrot very similar in size and coloration to the extant [[jandaya parakeet|jenday parakeet]] and [[sun conure]] – the sun conure being its closest living relative.<ref name="Katz">{{cite magazine |last=Katz |first=Brigit |date=13 December 2019 |title=The extinction of this U.S. parrot was quick and driven by humans |magazine=Smithsonian Magazine |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/extinction-us-parrot-was-quick-and-driven-humans-180973786/ |access-date=14 July 2023}}</ref>

The majority of the parakeets' plumage was green with lighter green underparts, a bright yellow head and orange forehead and face extending to behind the eyes and upper cheeks (lores). The shoulders were yellow, continuing down the outer edge of the wings. The primary feathers were mostly green, but with yellow edges on the outer primaries. Thighs were green towards the top and yellow towards the feet. Male and female adults were identical in plumage, however males were slightly larger than females ([[sexually dimorphic]] only in size). Their legs and feet were light brown. They share the [[zygodactyl]] feet common to all the parrot family. Their eyes were ringed by white skin and their beaks were pale flesh colored. These birds weigh about 3.5&nbsp;oz.,{{#tag:ref|A notable conflict exists over the weight of this bird, with most references reporting 280&nbsp;g (about 10&nbsp;oz), but that would make the bird an improbable 2.5&nbsp;times as heavy as the similarly sized, closely related [[Nanday parakeet]], whose weight is given as {{convert|100|-|140|g|oz|abbr=on}}|group=Note}} are 13&nbsp;in. long, and have wingspans of 21–23&nbsp;in.

Young Carolina parakeets differed slightly in coloration from adults. The face and entire body were green, with paler underparts. They lacked yellow or orange plumage on the face, wings, and thighs. Hatchlings were covered in mouse-gray down, until about 39–40&nbsp;days old, when green wings and tails appeared. Fledglings had full adult plumage around 1&nbsp;year of age.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Conuropsis carolinensis'' |year=c. 1998 |website=NatureServe.org |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.105252/Conuropsis_carolinensis |access-date=2024-08-19 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last = Fuller |first = Errol |author-link = Errol Fuller |year = 2001 |title = Extinct Birds |edition = Revised |publisher = Comstock |location = New York |isbn = 978-0-8014-3954-4 |page=150}}</ref>{{harvp|Snyder|Russell|2002}}

These birds were fairly long-lived, at least in captivity: A pair was kept at the [[Cincinnati Zoo]] for over 35&nbsp;years.