Carolina Parakeet, (sculpture).

Carolina Parakeet, (sculpture).

McGrain, Todd, sculptor.

Carolina Parakeet, (sculpture).

Sculpture: bronze.

Animal -- Bird -- Parrot

Outdoor Sculpture -- Florida -- Okeechobee

Kissimmee Prairie Preserve State Park, Okeechobee, Florida

The Carolina Parakeet sculpture was created by Todd McGrain, Associate Professor of Art at Cornell University, and is one in a series of extinct fowl in the Lost Bird Project. The Lost Bird Project is an effort to place larger-than-life bronze sculptures of extinct avian species near the location of their last known sightings. The sculptures are not biologically correct, as they are conceived to reach out and grab our awareness of a sad event of our existence. Mr. McGrain states: “They compel us to recognize the finality of our loss, they ask us not to forget them, and they remind us of our duty to prevent further extinction.” A documentary film of the same name covers the Lost Bird Project. The Lost Bird Project Memorials and locations are: the Carolina Parakeet in Okeechobee, FL, the Passenger Pigeon in Columbus, OH, the Heath Hen in Martha’s Vineyard, MA, the Great Auk on Fogo Island, Newfoundland, and the Labrador Duck in Elmira, New York.

Inventory Staff, 2012.

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