Re: grubby/odd-cloured cockatoos

[Anne & Roger Green <>]

Shane Raidal wrote: The Cacatua spp. will dig for food and the females
will get dirty
> when they are preparing a hollow, but usually it is only their faces which
> get dirty and the powder down in their plumage soon cleans these areas
> during preening.  
Someone in the SAOA recently reported yellowish Sulphur-crests near the 
River Murray and I've regularly seen "pink-breasted" Sulphur-crests and
Little Corellas, also near the Murray, in winter and spring. They can
look awfully like some exciting hybrid but I concluded the pink was from
redgum nest frass/"sawdust" and possibly the yellow was from the lining
of a limestone nest hole. (Suphur-crests have nesting colonies in the
cliffs along the mid and lower Murray)
Regards, Anne
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