Just for clarity from my earlier post Lesser Sulphur-Crested Cockatoos and
Yellow-Crested Cockatoos are different names for the same bird.
Cheers again,
Ed
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> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:25:57 +0930
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo in Renaissance painting [ID]
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> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rest.12042/abstract
>
> These are quotes from the paper which has been "Online early" since 3 Nov
> 2013.
>
> Guess the Chinese have been trading in Wallacea - Papua for a very long
> time....
>
>
> "Although the parrot has been labelled a White Cockatoo (Cacatua alba), it is
> now generally
> recognized as being a species of Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)"
>
> "In 2004 Bruce Thomas Boehrer identified the parrot as a Sulphur-crested
> Cockatoo, acknowledging that it would have been
> ‘a particularly rare bird in Renaissance Europe, native not to the New World
> but to New Guinea and Australia’. Richard Verdi, the curator of the 2007
> exhibition The Parrot in Art at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, went one
> step
> further, identifying the parrot as a Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua
> sulphurea) (Fig. 2). These are found in Indonesia (in the areas east and
> northeast of the Java Sea: Bali, Timor-Leste and Timor, the Lesser Sunda
> Islands and on Sulawesi) and are smaller than their Australian counterparts –
> measuring approximately thirty-five centimetres from beak to tail tip.
>
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