Yellow-crested Cockatoo
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| phylum | Chordata | The yellow-crested cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea) also known as the lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo, is a medium-sized (about 34-cm-long) cockatoo with white plumage, bluish-white bare orbital skin, grey feet, a black bill, and a retractile yellow or orange crest. The species is divided in four subspecies: Abbott's lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo; Citron-crested cockatoo; Timor sulphur-crested cockatoo and C. s. sulphurea. In future, this might change to seven subspecies, based on recent evidence.
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| clade | Diapsida | |
| Class | Aves | |
| order | Psittaciformes | |
| family | Cacatuidae | |
| genus | Cacatua | |
| species | C. sulphurea |
