Seychelles Parakeet
Extinct circa 1884 CE • Seychelles
"The Seychelles parakeet, a subspecies of the Alexandrine parakeet, became extinct around 1900. Probably this was a result of extensive deforestation - land being required for plantations - and excessive shooting on account of the damage these parakeets did to crops."
Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds (Ithaca, NY: Comstock Pub., 2001), 213.
Image: The Seychelles Parakeet (Psittacula wardi), John Gerrard Keulemans, in Extinct Birds by Lionel Walter Rothschild, 1907.
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