Yellow-crested Cockatoo

When to see the Yellow-crested Cockatoo

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Yellow-crested Cockatoo

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 4 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Recorded as a rare visitor in France, Singapore, Philippines, Germany.

About the Yellow-crested Cockatoo

The yellow-crested cockatoo also known as the lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo, is a medium-sized cockatoo with white plumage, bluish-white bare orbital skin, grey feet, a black bill, and a retractile yellow or orange crest. The sexes are similar.

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Easily confused with

Solomons CorellaCacatua ducorpsiiThe Solomons corella is about 30 cm (12 in) long. Blue-eyed CockatooCacatua ophthalmicaThe blue-eyed cockatoo is a large, about 50-cm-long, mainly white cockatoo with an erectile yellow and white crest, a black beak, dark grey legs, and a light blue rim of featherless skin around each eye, that gives this species its name. White CockatooCacatua albaThe white cockatoo is around 46 cm (18 in) long, and weighs about 400 g (14 oz) for small females and up to 800 g (28 oz) for big males.