Chip
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steffen Hellner [SMTP:steffen_at_hellner.biz]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 7:38 AM
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- Collecting ethics
>
> > What about the Carolina Parakeet? It was collected by both people who
> > wanted it for the pet trade and for it's feathers.
> Not really, Chip. This bird got extinct because loss of habitat (cypress
> swamps). This I took from the same book as the passenger pigeon. Again,
> collecting for pet and feathers was only additional (though not good) but
> didn4t cause the extinction.
>
> Please keep in mind that both species were enormously abundant. Of the
> passenger was estimated some 3 billion in one single swarm and there were
> many swarms! The Carolina Parakeet was present by the millions, too. No
> pet
> collecting could ever take them that much down. But the species could have
> probably being preserved if the hobbyists at that time were more engaged
> and
> experienced in breeding them.
>
> Steffen
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