Yellow-crested Cockatoo

Taxonomy

Order

Psittaciformes

Family

Cacatuidae

Genus

Cacatua

eBird Code

yeccoc1

Subspecies (6)

• Cacatua sulphurea abbotti

  Masalembu Besar Island (Java Sea); critically endangered

• Cacatua sulphurea djampeana

  islands in the Flores Sea: Tanahjampea Islands (Kayuadi, Tanahjampea, Kalao, Kalaotoa, and Madu)

• Cacatua sulphurea occidentalis

  western and central Lesser Sundas (Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, Padar, Rinca, Flores, Pantar, and Alor); probably extirpated on Lombok, and critically rare on Sumbawa and Flores

• Cacatua sulphurea parvula

  central Lesser Sundas (Roti, Semau, and Timor)

• Cacatua sulphurea paulandrewi

  Tukangbesi Islands (Wangi-wangi, Tomea, and Binongko), southeast of Sulawesi

• Cacatua sulphurea sulphurea

  Sulawesi and Muna and Buton (off southeast); now very rare