Pied Cormorant
Taking Off
Murray Mallee Region
Little Corella
Pair
 
                      
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)
Order: Parrots (Psittaciformes)
Family: Cockatoo (Cacatuidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)
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Thank you D Gordon E Robertson for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA, Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
King of the parrots. Sulphur yellow head crest that raises when threatened. Otherwise all white.

Copyright © 2012-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 30-Jul-2012
This species is classed as LC (Least Concern) in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)