Editing Carolina parakeet (section)

==Distribution and habitat==
[[File:Conuropsis carolinensis.jpg|thumb|Photo of a live pet specimen, 1906]] 
The Carolina parakeet had the northernmost range of any known parrot. It was found from southern [[New York (state)|New York]] and [[Wisconsin]] to [[Kentucky]], [[Tennessee]], and the [[Gulf of Mexico]], from the [[East Coast of the United States|Atlantic Seaboard]] to as far west as eastern [[Colorado]]. It lived in [[old-growth forest]]s along rivers and in swamps.<ref name="Griggs">{{cite book |last=Griggs |first=Jack L. |url=https://archive.org/details/americanbirdcons00grig |title=American Bird Conservancy's Field Guide to All the Birds of North America |date=1997 |publisher=HarperPerennial |isbn=0-06-273028-2 |location=New York |url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Battaglia|first1=L.L.|last2=Conner|first2=W.H.|year=2018|chapter=Old-growth and mature remnant floodplain forests of the southeastern United States|title=Ecology and Recovery of Eastern Old-Growth Forests|pages=21–37|location=Washington, DC|publisher=Island Press/Center for Resource Economics}}</ref> Its range was described by early explorers thus: the 43rd parallel as the northern limit, the 26th as the most southern, the 73rd and 106th meridians as the eastern and western boundaries, respectively, the range included all or portions of at least 28 states.{{#tag:ref|Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, N. Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, S. Carolina, S. Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, W. Virginia, Wisconsin|group=Note}} Its habitats were old-growth wetland forests along rivers and in swamps, especially in the Mississippi-Missouri drainage basin with large hollow trees including [[Taxodium|cypress]] and [[Platanus occidentalis|sycamore]] to use as roosting and nesting sites.

Only very rough estimates of the birds' former prevalence can be made, with an estimated range of 20,000 to 2.5 million km<sup>2</sup>, and population density of 0.5 to 2.0 parrots per km<sup>2</sup>, population estimates range from tens of thousands to a few million birds (though the densest populations occurred in Florida covering 170,000&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>, so hundreds of thousands of the birds may have been in that state alone).

The species may have appeared as a very rare [[vagrancy (biology)|vagrant]] in places as far north as [[southern Ontario]] in [[Canada]]. A few bones, including a [[pygostyle]] found at the Calvert Site in southern Ontario, came from the Carolina parakeet. The possibility remains open that this specimen was taken there for ceremonial purposes.<ref>{{cite book |last=Godfrey |first=W. Earl |date=1986 |title=The Birds of Canada |edition=revised |publisher=[[National Museum of Natural History]] |isbn=0-660-10758-9 |page=303}}</ref>