Yellow-crested Cockatoo
Cacatua sulphurea
Summary 2
The Yellow-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea) also known as the Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, is a medium-sized (approximately 34 cm long) cockatoo with white plumage, bluish-white bare orbital skin, grey feet, a black bill, and a retractile yellow crest. The sexes are similar.
It is an uncommon introduced breeding resident in Singapore.
It can be confused with another introduced cockatoo - the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (C. galerita), which is much larger, lacks yellowish cheek patch and has relatively smaller bill.
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- (c) Charles Lam, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/kclama/1878776580/
- Adapted by Tan Kok Hui from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacatua_sulphurea
