It looks to me like a white cockatiel. A common
domestic mutant. Not a hybrid. Most likely someone's escaped pet, although there
is no reason why such mutants would not occasionally occur in the wild. There is
nothing about captivity that creates mutants, they are just selected when they
occur.
Philip
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