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The only parrot native to the continental US, the Conuropsis carolinensis was a colorful bird of green, yellow and reddish-orange.

ONLINE: Martha Bergland January 26, 2021 Educator and author Martha Bergland. You know all about Aldo Leopold and John Muir, Wisconsin-associated naturalists. You know about John Jay Audubon, the great chronicler of North American birds. But what do you know about the Birdman of Koshkonong? This Swedish settler (aka Thure Kumlien) was an ornithologist, botanist and naturalist who settled near Lake Koshkonong in 1843. He sent bird specimens to all the major museums and was the first curator of the new Milwaukee Public Museum. Kumlien deserves more recognition and Milwaukee writer Martha Bergla...