yellow-crested

“Researchers found surviving yellow-crested Abbott's cockatoos in Masalembu Archipelago.”

Archive 2008-10-01

“Some 72 species of birds have been recorded, including yellow-crested cockatoo Cacatua sulphurea (V), noisy friar bird Philemon buceroides and common scrubhen Megapodius freycinet.”

Komodo National Park, Indonesia

“He was one of those large white yellow-crested cockatoos who, in their captivity, pass their time like galley-slaves, chained by one leg.”

Madame Midas

“And now, as he paused in admiration to gaze on the lovely view spread out before him, he felt the burning heat relieved for a moment by a flying cloud; he looked upward -- it was a flight of the yellow-crested cockatoo, which passed rapidly on with deafening screeches.”

Frank Oldfield Lost and Found

“As the sea became more shallow the yellow-crested waves of dirty water mixed with sand assumed an aspect of fury, and lying on my back I seemed to be tossed from one wave to another, while I listened with some apprehension to the melodious report of the man who took the depth of the water: "Fourteen káki" (feet)!”

Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917

“I call him -- is the Soul of the hawks; this, my Mimi, is the Soul of the little yellow-crested kingfisher.”

The Great Taboo

“In the second case are the larger varieties of the woodpecker, including the well-known great black woodpecker of Europe; the North American red-headed woodpecker, and the South American yellow-crested variety; the Carolina woodpecker; and the Cayenne woodpecker.”

How to See the British Museum in Four Visits

“One of the curious green knolls, so common there, was so thickly covered with the yellow-crested white cockatoo as to give the look of a cap of snow.”

Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria

“Birds with a restricted distribution found here include russet-backed oropendolas (Psarocolius angustifrons), white-bellied dacnis (Dacnis albiventris), dotted tanagers (Tangara varia), Serra do Mar tyrant-manakins (Neopelma chrysolophum), yellow-crested manakins (Heterocercus flavivertex), and crestless curassows (Mitu tomentosa).”

Rio Negro campinarana