yellow-crested

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

Archive 2008-10-01 2008

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 2008

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 2003

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 T.P. Wilson

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 Fergus Hume 1895

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 Carl Lumholtz 1886

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

The Great Taboo Grant Allen 1873

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 W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855

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 William Westgarth 1852

For a start, I found that eating breakfast al fresco on the veranda attracted squadrons of yellow-crested cockatoos anxious to share my meal.

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