Adults: General plumage white with faint yellow under wings and tail. Forehead, lores, band across throat, and bases of feathers on head, mantle and upper breast, orange-scarlet. Eye-ring, bare skin pale grey-blue. Eye, dark brown. Bill, bone, long and tapered. Feet and toes, mid-grey.
Eggs (Guide)
2 - 3; white; oblong-oval to long-oval; about 41 x 31 mm. Incubation: 24 days; by both sexes.
Young
Fledge in about 42 - 56 days. Fed by both sexes.
Subspecies
Alternative genus name Kakatoe now obsolete and official suppression proposed. Formerly considered conspecific with Western Corella (Cacatua pastinator), incorporating Little Corella (Cacatua sanguinea). However, on current evidence, the three forms probably best considered to constitute three separate species.
No subspecies.
Similar Species
Little Corella (Cacatua sanguinea), which has a shorter bill and lacks then pinkish coloration across the throat, and Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita), which is larger and has a yellow crest.
References
See References.
The Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Pizzey, G., and Knight, E., 1997, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 19691 5
Field Guide to Australian Birds Morecombe, M., 2000, Steve Parish Publishing Pty Ltd. ISBN 1 876282 10 X
Field Guide to the Birds of Australia Simpson, K., and Day, N., 1999, 6th Edition, Viking ISBN 0 670 87918 5
Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds 1988, 2nd Edition, Reader's Digest ISBN 0 949819 99 9
What Bird is That? 1984, Revised Edition, Angus & Robertson, Sydney ISBN 0 207 14846 5
Handbook of Australian, New Zealand & Antarctic Birds 1990 - , Oxford University Press, Melbourne ISBN 0 19 553244 9
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