![]() ![]() They are endangered in the wild due to illegal pet markets and deforestation. ![]() "These beautiful and smaller Cockatoos are native to Indonesia. It is a Citron Crested Cockatoo, I had one for over 10 years. Citrons have the thin recumbant crest that point forward like the sulfer crests, and it is not a mollucan. I've seen poorly weaned umbrellas no bigger than a goffin, and you have to figure whoever pitiful creature really didn't have the birds in mind, and likely didn't feed properly. Keep in mind that size in parrots really doesn't tell you much. I hate cheap people that mutt things just to make a buck). not unheard of (although I wish they were. My best guess would be a sulfur crest crossed with a goffin. The beak and nare design is almost identical to a mollucan (however if you crossed a mollucan with sulfur crested too you would have much more color and not quite so much yellow) So the only other bird that throws that crest design is a goffin. which you only find in Citrons and sulfur crested cockatoos. The bird does have the faded patches over the ear openings. ![]() although I would have to see it clean and in person to be sure (espcially hard to judge size) That is a hybrid (citrons have distinctively colored cheeks) Occasionally I do trip accross a "mutt cockatoo" that some lazy bum who was too cheap to purchase a bird of the same type decided to produce with dreams of making money fast. ![]()
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