This looks like a Blue-eyed Cockatoo from New Britain in New Guinea - see
Wikipedia article.
Maybe an escapee from captivity?
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On 26/10/2012, at 6:01 PM, sandra henderson <> wrote:
> my neighbour and fellow COG member John Bundock took a photo in his backyard
> last week of what Joe Forshaw has confirmed is a cockatoo-corella hybrid (see
> attached). the bird has a blue eye ring, and short yellow crest. It was with
> the sulphur-crested cockatoos in Wanniassa - but we haven't been able to
> sight it since. Joe thinks such hybrids will be more common with the
> increasing numbers of corellas locally.
>
> sandra h
> <hybrid_Sulphur-crested.jpg>
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