Blog post

A great slaughter: The extinction of the Carolina parakeet

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Creator
  • Timmons, Zena
2022

Abstract
  • The Carolina parakeet is the poster bird for our Audubon’s Birds of America exhibition. Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Biology, Zena Timmons, explores the decline of this bird species, information revealed by our specimens and how an extinct species can be recreated through taxidermy.

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Resource Type
  • Blog post
Creator
  • Timmons, Zena
Date published
  • 2022-04-14
Institution
  • National Museums Scotland
Organisational unit
  • Natural Sciences
Series name
  • National Museums Scotland Blog
Publisher
  • National Museums Scotland
Place of publication
  • Edinburgh
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Related exhibition
  • Audubon’s Birds of America
Related exhibition venue
  • National Museum of Scotland, Exhibition Gallery 1
Related exhibition date
  • 2022-02-12
  • 2022-05-08
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