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Rose breasted cockatoo
Eolophus roseicapilla
-31.994, 115.752
Field Notes
Description:
About 35 cm long silver back, pink face and chest, and a light pink mobile crest, the bare skin of the eye rings is carunculated. They have grey legs.
Habitat:
Spotted at Cottesloe beach area, Perth (Australia), is one of the most common and widespread cockatoos, and it can be found in open country in almost all parts of mainland Australia.
Notes:
Also known as the rose-breasted cockatoo, galah cockatoo, roseate cockatoo or pink and grey.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Superfamily: Cacatuoidea
Family: Cacatuidae
Subfamily: Cacatuinae
Tribe: Cacatuini
Genus: Eolophus
Bonaparte, 1854
Species: E. roseicapilla
Reference Links:
Galah - Wikipedia
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PublishedApril 18, 2017
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