The Carolina Parakeet is honored in the latest poster produced by Special Collections for their new exhibition, "Extinction in the Archive." Curator Holly Robertson peeks through the hole left in the poster to represent the disappearance of this significant species. The Carolina Parakeet was the most northern of the parrots. It once ranged the forests of the eastern United States from the Atlantic to Colorado and as far north as New York. It is believed its twentieth-century disappearance was the result of forest habitat loss as well as extermination by farmers as its feeding flocks could be a threat to crops and interestingly, the flocks tended to remain with wounded and dead members, making them easy prey. Our poster lost its symbolic bird from the Audubon painting of the "Carolina Parrot" with the help of our new piece of equipment, the Colex cutter. This machine allows us to cut intricate silhouettes in a number of different types of printing material. Try it out on your next job!