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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 ...
Cookie (June 30, 1933 – August 27, 2016) was a male pink cockatoo (also known as Major Mitchell's cockatoo) residing at Brookfield Zoo, near Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was believed to be the oldest member of his species alive in captivity, at the age of 82 in June 2015, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] having significantly exceeded the average lifespan ...
Today, the galah is seen, along with Major Mitchell's cockatoo, as an early divergence from the white cockatoo lineage, which has not completely lost its ability to produce an overall pink (Major Mitchell's) or pink and grey (galah) body plumage, while already being light in colour and non-sexually dimorphic.
Major Mitchell's cockatoo, or Leadbeater's cockatoo (Lophochroa leadbeateri). Named after Benjamin Leadbeater. Violet-fronted brilliant (Heliodoxa leadbeateri). A hummingbird named after Benjamin Leadbeater.
There are actually many varieties, like the Sulfur-crested Cockatoo, Galah Cockatoo, Moluccan Cockatoo, Major Mitchell Cockatoo, Gang-gang Cockatoo, Black Cockatoo, Eleonora Cockatoo, and the ...
Cookie, a Major Mitchell's cockatoo who at the time of his death at the age of 83, was recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest living parrot in the world; Cosmo, a grey parrot known for knowing over 200 words and being the subject of a book, Conversations with Cosmo; DD.43.Q.879, a Second World War homing pigeon awarded the Dickin Medal
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After spending 200 days bringing each piece to life, I'm excited to share The Parrot Project, my latest series of hand-cut and hand-painted miniature paper artworks. This collection captures the ...