@extinctera.org: In 1885, the Cincinnati Zoo paid $40 for 16 birds, hoping to save a species that was already disappearing. One of them was Incas. He and his mate, Lady Jane, lived at the zoo together for 32 years. She laid many eggs, but the pair pushed them out of the nest before they hatched. Lady Jane died in 1917. For the rest of his life, Incas was the last Carolina parakeet known in captivity. The Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) was the only parrot native to the eastern United States. Forest clearing, the feather trade for women's hats and farmers who killed them as pests pushed it out of the wild. The last wild bird known to have been collected was shot in Florida in 1904, and the species was declared extinct in 1939. Incas died on February 21, 1918. The zoo had promised to send his body to the Smithsonian to be displayed. It never arrived, and nobody knows where he ended up. This is a Carolina parakeet museum specimen, not Incas himself. Photo by Cephas (CC BY-SA 3.0), modified

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