sulphur-crested cockatoo

British  

noun

1. Also called: white cockatoo.  a large Australian white parrot, Kakatoe galerita , with a yellow erectile crest

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Example Sentences

In 2009, Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, stunned scientists and YouTube viewers alike when a video of him bobbing his head and lifting his legs to the Backstreet Boys’s song Everybody hit the internet.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 25, 2021

Mr Cocky, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, was found by a member of the public in the city of Sydney last month and taken to the local Avian Reptile and Exotic Pet Hospital.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2019

Snowball, a sulphur-crested cockatoo, became a YouTube sensation nearly a decade ago for dancing to the Backstreet Boys’ “Everybody.”

From Salon • Jul. 10, 2019

Her teeth were white as the wing of the sulphur-crested cockatoo, and that look showed them as no other.

From The Shadow of a Man by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)

Another occupant of this nestful tree is the sulphur-crested cockatoo, whose eggs are laid deep down in a hollow.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)