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The cockatiel (/ ˌ k ɒ k ə ˈ t iː l /; [2] Nymphicus hollandicus), also known as the weero/weiro [3] [4] or quarrion, [5] [6] is a medium-sized [7] parrot that is a member of its own branch of the cockatoo family endemic to Australia.
Picasso, a 5-year-old cockatiel, accidentally escaped from her home in Ypsilanti and flew towards Ann Arbor, where she was found almost five days later.
A pet cockatiel. This parrot is about 32 cm (13 in) long and is by far the smallest and lightest cockatoo. Larger cockatoos can live 30 to 70 years depending on the species, or occasionally longer, and cockatiels can live for about 20 years. As pets they require a long-term commitment from their owners.
The white cockatoo (Cacatua alba), also known as the umbrella cockatoo, is a medium-sized all-white cockatoo endemic to tropical rainforest on islands of Indonesia. When surprised, it extends a large and striking head crest, which has a semicircular shape (similar to an umbrella, hence the alternative name).
The little corella is a small white cockatoo growing to 35–41 cm (14–16 in) in length and weighs 370–630 g (13–22 oz), with a mean weight of 525 g (1.157 lb).
It all began with the normal grey cockatiel as the wild type colour, the mutations started with the captive home breeding, It took about 100 years for the first mutation [3] to evolve, from the first captive breeding of cockatiels which was in France in the 1850s till 1951 which known the Pied cockatiel mutation as first mutation colour to be established in the United States. [4]
Birds kept as pets include companion parrots like the budgie and cockatiel, fowl such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and quail, columbines, and passerines, namely finches and canaries. Fish kept as pets include: goldfish , koi , Siamese fighting fish ( Betta ), barb , guppy , molly , Japanese rice fish (Medaka), and oscar .
The long-billed corella does not have any recognized subspecies. [4] The first formal written description was by German naturalist Heinrich Kuhl in 1820. [4] It is one of several related species of cockatoos called corellas and classified in the subgenus Licmetis within the genus Cacatua, members of which are known as "white cockatoos".
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