Cockatoos (Cacatuidae)
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) - HBW 4, p. 277
French: Cacatoès à huppe jaune
German: Gelbhaubenkakadu
Spanish: Cacatúa Galerita
Other common names: White(!)/Greater Sulphur-crested Cockatoo; Triton’s Cockatoo (triton); Eleonora’s Cockatoo (eleonora)
Taxonomy: Psittacus galeritus Latham, 1790, New South Wales.
Alternative genus name Kakatoe now obsolete; official suppression proposed. Forms superspecies with C. sulphurea and C. ophthalmica. Four additional races (aruensis, macrolophus, kwalamkwalam, trobriandi) have been named from New Guinea and related islands, and another (rosinae) from mainland Australia, but none of these now considered valid. Four subspecies currently recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- triton Temminck, 1849 - New Guinea and surrounding islands.
- eleonora (Finsch, 1867) - Aru Is.
- fitzroyi (Mathews, 1912) - N Australia, from Fitzroy R in NW to Gulf of Carpentaria in NE.
- galerita (Latham, 1790) - E & SE Australia from Cape York to Tasmania.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Feeding on thistle seeds and responding to a Noisy Miner alarm call. Locality Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Stephen Wallace 8 February 2011 50 weeks ago 21 sec 4.6 -
A head detail of a bird. Locality Grampians National Park, Victoria, Australia (ssp galerita)
Barry Attridge 28 January 2008 3 years ago 13 sec 4.4 -
A bird climbing downward through branches Locality Kingston, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (ssp galerita)
Nick Talbot 4 June 2005 4 years ago 11 sec 4.4 -
Close-up of a bird perching in a tree. Locality Oaklands Junction, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (ssp galerita)
Nick Talbot 1 year ago 19 sec 4.3 -
A bird walking and picking up a twig Locality Pymble, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (ssp galerita)
Nick Talbot 7 January 2005 4 years ago 12 sec 4.3 -
A close view of a bird holding a nut with it's foot, then eating it Locality Kingston, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (ssp galerita)
Nick Talbot 4 June 2005 4 years ago 11 sec 4.3
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Sulphur crested cockatoo.
Locality Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Margaret Leggoe 21 November 2010 1 year ago 4.4 -
one bird close up
Locality Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia
Rémi Bigonneau 28 September 2010 11 weeks ago 4.2 -
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo perched
Locality Jerrabomberra, New South Wales, Australia
Lindsay Hansch 25 December 2011 4 weeks ago 4 -
Two birds preening each other
Locality Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia
Rémi Bigonneau 28 September 2010 11 weeks ago 4 -
Sulphur-crested cockatoo, portrait in suburban garden.
Locality Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Margaret Leggoe 27 May 2009 1 year ago 4 -
Flying near a golf course in northern Sydney
Locality Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (ssp galerita)
Howard Banwell 4 March 2009 1 year ago 4
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Screeching from a tree branch and then in flight Locality Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
(ssp galerita)
Joe Angseesing 25 February 2009 1 year ago 3 -
A bird in an aviary mimics human speech Locality Wing's Wildlife Park, Tasmania, Australia
(ssp galerita)
Joe Angseesing 23 February 2009 1 year ago 2.5
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