sulphur-crested cockatoo

British  

noun

1. Also called: white cockatoo.  a large Australian white parrot, Kakatoe galerita , with a yellow erectile crest

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Example Sentences

In 2009, Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, stunned scientists and YouTube viewers alike when a video of him bobbing his head and lifting his legs to the Backstreet Boys’s song Everybody hit the internet.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 25, 2021

Mr Cocky, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, was found by a member of the public in the city of Sydney last month and taken to the local Avian Reptile and Exotic Pet Hospital.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2019

Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, became a YouTube sensation nearly a decade ago for dancing to the Backstreet Boys’ “Everybody.”

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2019

The only birds seen were the sacred kingfisher, the sulphur-crested cockatoo, and the Australian crow.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John

Another occupant of this nestful tree is the sulphur-crested cockatoo, whose eggs are laid deep down in a hollow.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)