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sulphur-crested cockatoo
Cacatua galerita
-2.56302, 140.504
Field Notes
Description:
This sulphur-crested cockatoo appeared in my yard/neighborhood for about a week and decimated my fruit crops. It was no doubt semi-feral meaning that someone nearby had obtained a wild bird and had succeeded in partially habituating it to humans. They are still plentiful in parts of wild Papua.Thankfully it went away after a week or so...
Habitat:
Perched in a guava tree (Psidium) in a large semi-urban yard & garden, near a disturbed patch of remnant lowland forest, in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.
Notes:
I have never met a captive sulphur-crested cockatoo that was both healthy and well-adjusted. I have seen many in this part of the world and they have all been destructive and/or aggressive, often given to plucking their own feathers out. I have also seen many in the wild. That is where they belong.
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