They make excellent pets because they are gentle, playful, and sometimes tend to be shy. Yellow-crested Cockatoos are active and high-energy breeds. These adorable birds are curious and love to engage in activities. Yellow-crested cockatoos inhabit the forest, forest edges, scrubs, and cultivated areas from sea level up to about 1500 meters. Like other animals found on Indo-Pacific islands, their major threats for survival include pet trade, habitat loss, unsustainable over-exploitation, and fragmentation. With very few yellow-crested cockatoos remaining in the wild, these birds are exposed to a lot of threats. There are only a few remnant populations of related subspecies scattered around Indonesia. Because of the deterioration, yellow-crested Cockatoos are classified as critically endangered. The population of this bird species has suffered a massive decline, estimated to be more than 80% in the past 40 years. Now the birds are confined to a few islands. These birds have also been introduced in Hong Kong and other parts of the world. Nest is bed of woodchips in a tree-hollow.The yellow-crested Cockatoo is native to the wooded and cultivated areas of East Timor and Indonesia’s islands of Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas. Most active immediately after dawn.Ģ to 3 elliptical eggs, 46.5 x 33.5mm (1.8 x 1.3 in).Īustralia: May-September in the north, August-January in south, few records from New Guinea. Large groups of up to 2000 birds feed on the ground, with sentinel birds taking turns to be on the lookout for predators. Mostly resident, but local movements have been noted between coastal Australian islands. Other foods include: roots, rhizomes, nuts, berries, flowers, corms, blossoms and insect larvae. Also feeds on harmful weeds such as cotton thistle. Found up to 1500m (4920 ft) in parts of Australia, 2400m (7872 ft) in Papua New Guinea.įorages on grasses and herbs. Introduced to Kai Islands.įound in variety of forest areas such as secondary growth, woodland (including swamp and riverine), mangroves, open country, agricultural land (including rice fields and palm plantations), savanna, mallee and suburban areas. Introduced to Palau Islands, Micronesia, and some islands of E Moluccas, Indonesia.Ĭ.g. triton: W Papuan Islands, Indonesia and New Guinea. fitzroyi: N Australia from Kimberly division of W Australia east to Gulf of Carpentaria, N Queensland.Ĭ.g. queenslandica: Cape York Peninsula and southern Torres Strait island, N Queensland.Ĭ.g. Introduced to SW Australia and New Zealand.Ĭ.g. galerita: E and SE Australia from N Queensland south to Tasmania and SE South Australia, including Kangaroo Island. Is also not a protected species in Australia, therefore culls occur. In spite of protection in Indonesia this species is still trapped for the wild bird trade. Very active and inquisitive so provide lots of bird-safe chew items (heat sterilized pine cones, fir, elder, pine and willow branches) and toys, as well as challenging puzzle and forage toys. Mix of small seeds: canary, oats, safflower spray millet limited sunflower seed, dry, soaked or sprouted spouted pulses, cooked butterbeans and lentils boiled maize green leaves of Swiss chard, lettuce, sowthistle, dandelion, chickweed vegetables such as: corn, carrot, celery, zucchini, green beans and peas in the pod fruit such as: apple, pear, orange, cactus fruits, bananas nuts such as: walnuts, hazelnuts, pecans and roasted peanuts complete pellet. Walk-in enclosure minimum length 4.5m (14.7 ft). Immatures emit a quiet, high-pitched whine, and a grating creaky call. Perched birds may also produce low murmuring. In alarm harsh gutteral screeches and shrill squawks. Very loud, raucous, creaky sounding screech ending in upward or downward inflection. galerita: Like adults but sometimes with scattered feathers washed with pale grey. eleonora: Both adults as in triton but bill smaller.Ĭ.g. triton: Both adults as in galerita but with wider crest feathers. fitzroyi: Both adults as in galerita but with minimal yellow on ear coverts and feathers of cheeks and throat broader, very ridged bill. queenslandica: Both adults as in galerita but smaller in size bill broader, depressed and ridged.Ĭ.g. In male, eye dark brown, in female, red/brown. galerita: Both adults generally white, washed with pale yellow on ear coverts and bases of feathers of cheeks and throat yellow crest eye ring white.
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