Incas (parakeet)

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Incas (before 1885 – February 21, 1918) was a male Carolina parakeet and the last member of his species known with certainty. Though the American Ornithologists Union accepted a sighting in 1920 and probable sightings of wild Carolina parakeets continued into the 1930s, no specimens were collected after 1904 and Incas is often cited as the last individual in existence. Incas died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1918, in the same enclosure as Martha, the last passenger pigeon, who died in 1914. He died within one year of his mate, Lady Jane.

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