Yellow-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea)

Yellow-crested Cockatoo, a reference photo — Photo: Kalvin Chan · CC BY 4.0 (licence)

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. The sexes are similar.

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Yellow-crested Cockatoo being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

Cacatua moluccensis
Cacatua galerita
Cacatua goffiniana

Classification

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Cacatuidae
Genus: Cacatua
Species: Cacatua sulphurea

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