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Adult perched on a tree in Melbourne Zoo. The pink cockatoo has a soft-textured white and salmon-pink plumage and large, bright red and yellow crest. [19] Its former name referenced Major Thomas Mitchell, who wrote, "Few birds more enliven the monotonous hues of the Australian forest than this beautiful species whose pink-coloured wings and flowing crest might have embellished the air of a ...
The galah and Major Mitchell's cockatoo are more broadly coloured in pink tones. [44] Several species have a brightly coloured bare area around the eye and face known as a periophthalmic ring; the large red patch of bare skin of the palm cockatoo is the most extensive and covers some of the face, while it is more restricted in some other ...
The conservation park was proclaimed under the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1972 in 2010 as the land "supports high value habitat for the endangered plains wanderer, a distinctive, quail-like bird, as well as other species of state conservation significance including the Major Mitchell's cockatoo, blue-winged parrot and peregrine falcon". [5]
Some threatened and declining species are Major Mitchell's cockatoo, painted honeyeater, squatter pigeon, crested bellbird and diamond firetail. Among 50 species of waterbirds, the rare and elusive Australian painted snipe has been recorded. [2]
The galah is often found in flocks of 10 to 1,000 individuals. These can be mixed flocks, the members of which may include Major Mitchell's cockatoo, the little corella, and the sulphur-crested cockatoo. The galah readily hybridizes with all of these species (see below). [10]
Salmon-crested cockatoo; Cape Barren goose; Major Mitchell's cockatoo (inside) South America: Scarlet ibis, Sunbittern, Boat-billed heron, Southern lapwing, Indian peafowl (indigenous to Asia), Peruvian pigeon, Cattle egret, Blue-grey tanager, Red-capped cardinal, Yellow-rumped cacique, Inca tern, Guira cuckoo, Matamata turtle
Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (15 June 1792 – 5 October 1855), often called Major Mitchell, was a Scottish surveyor and explorer of Southeastern Australia. He was born in Scotland and served in the British Army during the Peninsular War. In 1827 he took up an appointment as Assistant Surveyor General of New South Wales.
A number of birds are listed as vulnerable or threatened including the magpie goose, blue-billed duck, freckled duck, Australasian bittern, brolga, painted snipe, osprey, glossy black cockatoo, turquoise parrot, square-tailed kite and Major Mitchell's cockatoo. [7]