Sadly, sometimes farmers view wild flocks as pests rather than pets.Ĭockatoos are usually relatively selective in their habitat preferences. They are one of several species of Cockatoo that are popular pets. Sulfur-Crested Cockatoo – Sulfur-crested Cockatoos are all white birds, with yellow crests and yellow tails.The oldest recorded Pink lived to the ripe old age of 83! Their head and neck are white pink, and the rest of their bodies are white. Leadbeater’s Cockatoo – Also known as the Pink Cockatoo, this species has beautiful light pink plumage and a bright pink crest.
YELLOW AND WHITE COCKATOO CRACK
They use their massive, powerful bills to crack open nuts and seeds. Their bills are incredibly large, second only to the Hyacinth Macaw. They are the largest Cockatoo species, and their entire bodies are black with red patches on their cheeks.
They come in a variety of colors, from all white or all black, to grey, pink, red, yellow, and more. At their heaviest, these birds weigh about two and a half pounds. They range in size from one to two feet long from head to tail. (Accessed August 31, 2021.Different species of these birds are different sizes, with different plumage and patterns. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo – Cacatua galerita. The Birds of the Hawaiian Islands: Occurrence, History, Distribution, and Status. The Cockatoos: A Complete Guide to the 21 Species. Status of Feral Populations of Exotic Cockatoos (Genus Cacatua) in Taiwan. Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance. The subspecies of Yellow-crested Cockatoo Cacatua sulphurea. CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia.Ĭollar, N.J., and S.J. BirdLife’s Globally Threatened Bird Forums: Citron-crested Cockatoo ( Cacatua citrinocristata): Revise global status?. (Accessed August 27, 2021.)īirdLife International. (Accessed August 5, 2021.)īirdLife International. (Accessed August 25, 2021.)īirdLife International. Yellow-crested tends to show more yellow on its cheeks, but this is not a reliable distinction as Sulphur-crested also shows some yellow on the cheeks.īirdLife International. For purposes of field identification, their plumages are essentially identical. In most cases, Yellow-crested is most likely to be confused with Sulphur-crested. IUCN classifies it as critically endangered, following a precipitous decline from having been a common, widespread species in the mid-1900s.
There is some variation within and among the natural populations-in particular, bill size seems to vary significantly. The Yellow-crested Cockatoo comprises somewhere between three and six subspecies (not including “Citron-crested”), each with fragmentary, depleted populations that inhabit isolated islands in eastern Indonesia and adjacent Timor-Leste. Sulphur-crested has been widely introduced and apparently viable populations are established in New Zealand (both North and South Islands), with potentially viable ones in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan. However, small numbers are kept in captivity elsewhere, and apparent escapees have been reported from other islands in the Bismarck Archipelago (mainly on New Ireland). There are no known introduced populations of Blue-eyed, so it remains mostly isolated within its native range on New Britain.
YELLOW AND WHITE COCKATOO SKIN
Blue-eyed is named for its characteristic orbital skin coloration, but this distinction is only partly reliable for identification because the “Triton Cockatoo” typically has bluish orbital skin (and northern Australian populations of Sulphur-crested reportedly sometimes show this as well). Blue-eyed’s crest also tends to be a paler shade of yellow than the others, but the shades vary somewhat in all three species. On four forms the yellow feathers curl up and forward, whereas on Blue-eyed the yellow feathers curl down and backward. All five forms have yellow-and-white crests that consist of a white “shield” at the front with several yellow feathers behind. Blue-eyed differs fundamentally from the others in the shape of its crest.
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