Cockatoo Yellow-crested (Cacatua sulphurea)




 

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These types of parrots in Sulawesi and East Nusa Tenggara.
Description
The body length ranges from 33-35 cm.

Child type
 Type cockatoo has 4 children type (subspesieslras) that its properties can be seen in Table 2.

The four subspecies are as follows.

  1. Cockatoo Yellow-crested (Cacatua sulphurea sulphurea). Ras is found in P. Sulawesi and surrounding islands, like Mina, Butung, Land Jampea, Kayuadi, kaleo, Kalatoa, Madi, and Kep. Tukangbesi.
  2. Orange-white-crested Cockatoo (C. s. titrinocristatd), found in P. Sumba.
  3. Abbot small Cockatoos (C. s. abboti) found in p. Masalembo and P. Masakambing.
  4. Timor Cockatoo (C. s. parvula): found in Nusa Tenggara, as in P. Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, Rinca, Padar, Flores, Pantar, Alor, Semau and East.
Population status 
Around the world, this type of parrot is estimated there are 40,000 fish, including in situ and ex situ. While each child type raempunyai different levels of scarcity. For a child population sulphurea Most species can still survive there in P. Buton, namely 50-100 tails in the 1997 census.
Parvula subspecies scattered in various islands in Nusa Tenggara, which has a population of whom most were reported in P. Komodo as much as 85-90 tails (census 1995) and in P. Moyo is estimated there are 1,600 (census 1981).Citrinocristata subspecies is estimated that between 1150-2644 individuals (analysis of year 1995) which has suffered severe population decline in 1986-1989, reaching 80%.Son of the rarest species, namely abboti which currently only the remaining 5 birds only in P. Masakambing (1997 census). The trend was largely due to the scarcity of arrest for trading and also because perasakan liabitat natural.Based on the record shows that the export trade in species-crested cockatoo yellow tail reach around 100,000 in 1980-1992. Meanwhile, in habitats ranging from plantation areas, forest edge until luitan with a height of 800 m above sea level continues to experience pi'ngikisan.

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