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Yellow-crested cockatoo, the Glossary

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.^[1]

58 relations: Avicennia, Beak, Binomial nomenclature, Bird nest, Bud, Cacatua, Carl Linnaeus, Ceiba pentandra, Charles Lucien Bonaparte, CITES, Citron-crested cockatoo, Cockatoo, Crest (feathers), Critically Endangered, East Timor, Eleazar Albin, Ernst Hartert, Feather, Flores, Fruit, Genus, George Edwards (naturalist), Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Harry C. Oberholser, Herbaceous plant, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Introduced species, Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, Johann Friedrich Gmelin, Komodo (island), Komodo National Park, Laiwangi Wanggameti National Park, Lesser Sunda Islands, Lombok, Louis Pierre Vieillot, Manupeu Tanah Daru National Park, Mark Aitchison Young, Masalembu Islands, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Nino Konis Santana National Park, Nut (fruit), Pantar, Psittacus, Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Park, Rinca, Semau, Subspecies, Sulawesi, Sulphur-crested cockatoo, ... Expand index (8 more) »
Birds of Sulawesi
Cacatua
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Avicennia

Avicennia is a genus of flowering plants currently placed in the bear's breeches family, Acanthaceae.

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Beak

The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals.

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Binomial nomenclature

In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.

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Bird nest

A bird nest is the spot in which a bird lays and incubates its eggs and raises its young.

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Bud

In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem.

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Cacatua

Cacatua is a genus of cockatoos found from the Philippines and Wallacea east to the Solomon Islands and south to Australia.

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Carl Linnaeus

Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.

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Ceiba pentandra

Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously emplaced in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety C. pentandra var guineensis) West Africa.

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Charles Lucien Bonaparte

Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte, 2nd Prince of Canino and Musignano (24 May 1803 – 29 July 1857) was a French naturalist and ornithologist, and a nephew of Napoleon.

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CITES

CITES (shorter name for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals from the threats of international trade.

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Citron-crested cockatoo

The citron-crested cockatoo (Cacatua citrinocristata) is a medium-sized cockatoo with an orange crest, dark grey beak, pale orange ear patches, and strong feet and claws. Yellow-crested cockatoo and citron-crested cockatoo are birds of the Lesser Sunda Islands, Cacatua and cockatoos.

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Cockatoo

A cockatoo is any of the 21 species of parrots belonging to the family Cacatuidae, the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea.

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Crest (feathers)

The crest is a prominent feature exhibited by several bird and other dinosaur species on their heads.

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Critically Endangered

An IUCN Red List Critically Endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

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East Timor

East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the exclave of Oecusse on the island's north-western half, and the minor islands of Atauro and Jaco. The western half of the island of Timor is administered by Indonesia.

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Eleazar Albin

Eleazar Albin (fl. 1690 – c. 1742)Michael A. Salmon, Peter Marren, Basil Harley.

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Ernst Hartert

Ernst Johann Otto Hartert (29 October 1859 – 11 November 1933) was a widely published German ornithologist.

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Feather

Feathers are epidermal growths that form a distinctive outer covering, or plumage, on both avian (bird) and some non-avian dinosaurs and other archosaurs.

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Flores

Flores is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia.

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Fruit

In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering (see Fruit anatomy).

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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George Edwards (naturalist)

George Edwards (3 April 1694 – 23 July 1773) was an English naturalist and ornithologist, known as the "father of British ornithology".

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician, and cosmologist.

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Harry C. Oberholser

Harry Church Oberholser (June 25, 1870 – December 25, 1963) was an American ornithologist.

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Herbaceous plant

Herbaceous plants are vascular plants that have no persistent woody stems above ground.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Introduced species

An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.

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Japanese occupation of Hong Kong

The Imperial Japanese occupation of Hong Kong began when the governor of Hong Kong, Sir Mark Young, surrendered the British Crown colony of Hong Kong to the Empire of Japan on 25 December 1941.

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Johann Friedrich Gmelin

Johann Friedrich Gmelin (8 August 1748 – 1 November 1804) was a German naturalist, chemist, botanist, entomologist, herpetologist, and malacologist.

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Komodo (island)

Komodo (Pulau Komodo) is one of the 17,508 islands that comprise the Republic of Indonesia.

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Komodo National Park

Komodo National Park (Indonesian: Taman Nasional Komodo) is a national park in Indonesia located within the Lesser Sunda Islands in the border region between the provinces of East Nusa Tenggara and West Nusa Tenggara.

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Laiwangi Wanggameti National Park

Laiwangi Wanggameti National Park is located on the island of Sumba in Indonesia.

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Lesser Sunda Islands

The Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesian: Kepulauan Sunda Kecil, Tetun: Illá Sunda ki'ik sirá; Balinese: Kapuloan Sunda cénik), now known as Nusa Tenggara Islands (Kepulauan Nusa Tenggara, or "Southeast Islands"), are an archipelago in Indonesian archipelago.

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Lombok

Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia.

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Louis Pierre Vieillot

Louis Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 24 August 1830, Sotteville-lès-Rouen) was a French ornithologist.

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Manupeu Tanah Daru National Park

Manupeu Tanah Daru National Park is located on the island of Sumba in Indonesia.

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Mark Aitchison Young

Sir Mark Aitchison Young (t; 30 June 1886 – 12 May 1974) was a British administrator who became the Governor of Hong Kong during the years immediately before and after the Japanese occupation of the territory.

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Masalembu Islands

The Masalembu Islands (Kepulauan Masalembu) are the islands that lie in the Java Sea to the north of Madura, about halfway between Madura and Borneo.

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Mathurin Jacques Brisson

Mathurin Jacques Brisson (30 April 1723 – 23 June 1806) was a French zoologist and natural philosopher.

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Nino Konis Santana National Park

The Nino Konis Santana National Park is East Timor's first national park.

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Nut (fruit)

A nut is a fruit consisting of a hard or tough nutshell protecting a kernel which is usually edible.

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Pantar

Pantar (Pulau Pantar) is the second largest island in the Indonesian Alor Archipelago, after Alor.

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Psittacus

Psittacus is a genus of African grey parrots in the subfamily Psittacinae.

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Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Park

Rawa Aopa Watumohai National Park is a national park on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, in the province of South East Sulawesi.

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Rinca

Rinca is a small island near Komodo and Flores island, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, within the West Manggarai Regency.

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Semau

Semau, also known as Pusmau and Pasar Pusmau, is an island in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.

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Sulawesi

Sulawesi, also known as Celebes, is an island in Indonesia.

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Sulphur-crested cockatoo

The sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) is a relatively large white cockatoo found in wooded habitats in Australia, New Guinea, and some of the islands of Indonesia. Yellow-crested cockatoo and sulphur-crested cockatoo are Cacatua and cockatoos.

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Sumba

Sumba (Soemba-eiland; pulau Sumba), natively also spelt as Humba, Hubba, Suba, or Zuba (in Sumba languages) is an Indonesian island (part of the Lesser Sunda Archipelago group) located in the Eastern Indonesia and administratively part of the East Nusa Tenggara provincial territory.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow-crested_cockatoo

Also known as Cacatua sulphurea, Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.

, Sumba, Sumbawa, Systema Naturae, Timor, Tower Hill, Tukangbesi Islands, Type (biology), Wing clipping.

Yellow-crested cockatoo, the Glossary

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See also

Birds of Sulawesi

Cacatua

Cockatoos

Feral parrots

References