Yellow-crested cockatoo
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Yellow-crested cockatoos incubate their eggs with males on duty by day and females by night.
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Yellow-crested cockatoos incubate their eggs with males on duty by day and females by night.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Yellow-crested cockatoo
- Scientific name
- Cacatua sulphurea
- Japanese name
- コバタン
- Group
- Birds
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Psittaciformes
- Family
- Cacatuidae
- Genus
- Cacatua
It looks a lot like the sulphur-crested cockatoo but is a size smaller, and its yellow cheeks set it apart.
How the Yellow-crested cockatoo lives
They fly from mountain roosts to lower ground to feed. They eat seeds, nuts, berries, flowers, leaves, and leaf buds. Large flocks gather to feed in trees bearing fruit. They lay white eggs in a hole in a tree.
World Parrot TrustGdański Ogród ZoologicznyBasic data
- Size
- Total length: about 33 cm
- Range
- Around the Sulawesi Islands
Where the Yellow-crested cockatoo has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- コバタン
- 简体中文
- 小葵花凤头鹦鹉
- 繁體中文
- 小葵花鳳頭鸚鵡
- 한국어
- 황관앵무
- Español
- Acatúa Sulfúrea
- Français
- Cacatoès soufré
- Deutsch
- Gelbwangenkakadu
- Português (Brasil)
- Cacatua-de-crista-amarela
- Italiano
- Cacatua crestagialla
- العربية
- كوكاتو أصفر العرف
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Kakatua-kecil jambul-kuning
- Русский
- Малый желтохохлый какаду
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — コバタンChecked: 2026-11-04
- Gdański Ogród Zoologiczny — Yellow-Crested CockatooChecked: 2026-11-07
- World Parrot Trust — Yellow-crested CockatooChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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