Yellow-crested Cockatoo

The yellow-crested cockatoo, also known as the lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo, is a medium-sized cockatoo, about 34 cm long, with white plumage, bluish-white bare orbital skin, grey feet, a black bill and a retractile yellow or orange crest. The yellow-crested cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea) also known as the lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo, is a medium-sized (about 34-cm-long) cockatoo with white plumage, bluish-white bare orbital skin, grey feet, a black bill, and a retractile yellow or orange crest. (Wikipedia, general species account).

Its recorded distribution includes wooded and cultivated areas of East Timor and the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas (Wikipedia, general species account). The species is found in wooded and cultivated areas of East Timor and Indonesia's islands of Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas. It is easily confused with the larger and more common sulphur-crested cockatoo, which has a more easterly distribution and can be separated by the lack of pale yellow coloring on its cheeks (although some sulphur-cresteds develop yellowish patches). (Wikipedia, general species account).