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An hour’s drive from Tomohon is Bitung, terminus for ferry traffic from the Moluccan archipelago and Papua, Indonesia’s easternmost province.

From Economist • Apr. 19, 2018

The day after John Berger died, a friend posted a video on my Facebook page of two Moluccan cockatoos at a tropical bird zoo and sanctuary in Tennessee.

From Salon • Jan. 7, 2017

However they manage, parrots can live a half century or longer: the record-holder among Moluccan cockatoos, for example, is 92, and a very lucky kakapo might make it to 120.

From New York Times • Mar. 21, 2016

He lives on the Cathedral Close with his partner, Arthur Fiacco, 56, a cellist; two cats; and a Moluccan cockatoo, Precious.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2011

Breakfast was punctuated by the shrieks and cries of howler monkeys, hill mynahs and Moluccan cockatoos.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel