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Georeferenced sighting and specimen occurrence data of the extinct Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) from 1564 - 1944

Overview of attention for article published in Biodiversity Data Journal, June 2018
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Title
Georeferenced sighting and specimen occurrence data of the extinct Carolina Parakeet (Conuropsis carolinensis) from 1564 - 1944
Published in
Biodiversity Data Journal, June 2018
DOI 10.3897/bdj.6.e25280
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Authors

Kevin R. Burgio, Colin J. Carlson, Alexander L. Bond

Abstract

Despite much present-day attention on recently extinct North American birds species, little contemporary research has focused on the Carolina parakeet (Conuropsis carolinesis). While the last captive Carolina parakeet died 100 years ago this year, the Carolina parakeet was officially declared extinct in 1920, but they likely persisted in small, isolated populations until at least the 1930s, and perhaps longer. How this once wide-ranging and plentiful species went extinct remains a mystery. Here, we present a georeferenced dataset of Carolina parakeet sightings spanning nearly 400 years by combining both written observations and specimen data. Because we include both observations and specimen data, the Carolina parakeet occurrence dataset presented here is the most comprehensive and rigorous datsetset on this species available. The dataset includes 861 sightings from 1564 to 1944. Each datapoint includes geographic coordinates, a measurement of uncertainty, detailed information about each sighting, and an assessment of the sighting's validity. Given that this species is so poorly understood, we make these data freely available to facilitate more research on this colorful and charismatic species.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 5 25%
Student > Bachelor 3 15%
Other 3 15%
Researcher 3 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 10%
Other 3 15%
Unknown 1 5%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 9 45%
Environmental Science 4 20%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 1 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 5%
Arts and Humanities 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 2 10%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 53. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 November 2021.
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