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Five Indonesian Cockatoos Lucky Winner Gets Five Indonesian Leadbeater Cockatoo Dear Watchbird Editor, Cockatoos I would like to share my wonderful Christmas news with all my fellow bird Their Biology and Captive Management lovers. I think that by now everyone knows I won the AFA's Leadbeater Matthew M. Vriends, Ohio Cockatoo Drawing last December. What a gift! I still have to pinch myself to make Introduction to Australia and/or the Southeast Asia sure I'm not dreaming. I always he impressive cockatoos island groups north of it; dreamed of having a' Leadbeater (Cacatuidae) are highly active • All species have a crest that can Cockatoo but it just wasn't in my bud­ T by nature and able to learn be erected at will when the bird is get. many tricks quickly. They are talkative alarmed or disturbed; I couldn't believe it when Laurella as well, although they are not genius­ • All species emit a peculiar hissing Desborough called and told me I had es as talkers and cannot be compared sound when threatened or alarmed; won the baby cockatoo. I now apolo­ with Amazon parrots or African Greys. • All scratch their heads from under gize to her for all the bad things I said Because they also are tamed easily, the wing; when she called. She must have they are distinguished stock in zoos, as • All are gregarious and are gener­ thought I was the most ungrateful per­ well as pets in the fancier's home. For ally found in flocks, some of them son she ever talked to. I kept saying it the aviculturist cockatoos are interest­ numbering in the hundreds; must be a joke or prank. I asked her if ing species, and various races are • All engage in mutual preening; this was some sort of new scam. being bred in Europe and this country. • Most species bathe either by fly­ I had told so many of my friends These cockatoos are well adapted to ing in the rain or by fluttering through that I was going to win that I now climate and feeding conditions, are wet leaves in tree tops (at least one thought they were playing a joke on disease-resistant, and, in addition, are species bathes by hanging upside me. I called a friend (a new AFA mem­ cage- or even handtame. However, the down, thereby permitting the rain to ber) to complain and she recommend­ opportunities to produce such a young penetrate to the skin); ed I check it out. I called Debbie Clifton bird are still rather limited at this • Most species secrete a powder and she called Jim Hawley who was moment. from a gland near the spine that is actually at rpe meeting and drawing. Most imported cockatoos are (or used in preening and grooming (pow­ Hawley confirmed that I had really were) captured from the nest and der-down feathers). won!! hand-reared by natives in the birds' During 1982, 1984, 1993/94 I was I still had a hard time believing it natural South Pacific habitats. By the involved in field studies regarding until I called Rick Jordan. He was time they arrive (or arrived) in the cockatoos. I hope that this presenta­ expecting my call. That did it. I had to United States, such cockatoos usually tion shows the beginner the way to the believe it was real; I was not dreaming. are (were) hand-tame and accustomed proper keeping of cockatoos, and I want to thank my friend, Thelma, to eating foods available to captive offers the experienced cockatoo for joining the AFA and I know she'll birds. Among the most popular vari­ owner and aviculturist new and useful enjoy the Watchbird as much as I do. eties are the Sulphur-crested cockatoo suggestions. And a very special thanks to Rick (Cacatua galerita) and the Salmon­ Jordan for such a sweet baby. I just crested or Moluccan Cockatoo The Species Menu received baby "Jordan" (named after (Cacatua moluccensis). Daily Seed Mixture: his breeder) on January 12th. He is a Its scientific name, Cacatua, is of Barley 5% real sweet baby, gives me kisses and Malayan origin, meaning "old father" Buckwheat 50/0 says "I love you." He also says "What ("kaka" = father; "tua" = old or wise). Malaleuca seed you do?" and "Good boy." This name is apt because cockatoos Bottlebrush bush) 5% He is bright eyed, talkative, active can live 60 to 80 years or more, and Canary Grass seed 10% and in great feather. We get along real often remain with the same human Millet 10% well together. family for many generations. Corn 15% He is a beautiful bird. I LOVE HIM!! All or most cockatoos have many Oats 5% characteristics in common. Consider Eucalyptus seed 5% Best Regards and Many Thanks the following: Paddy 10% Delma Dickerman • All cockatoo species are endemic Sorghum 5% 28 MarchiApril 1997 Sunflower 15% inopportune moments. The species West Irian, the D'Entrecasteaux Islands Wheat 10% has a good reason to be popular. It is off eastern ]apua and the more south­ As an extra, give birds corn on the attractive and easily tamed, gentle and ern Louisiade Archipelagos. Indeed, cob (2%), banksia (2%) and pine (2%). affectionate, and often develops an for the most part, triton is commonly Note, however, that not all species will extensive vocabulary, which it uses encountered throughout most of the accept them. Apple and/or orange, as with considerable resemblance to the small island groups in the western area well as greens, are also good. actual human sound. Its greatest draw­ of the Solomon Sea. Triton was, In a separate dish, provide a choice back is the power of its voice, which according to Forshaw, introduced to of the following nuts 05-20 grams per makes it an exceptionally poor candi­ Ceramlaut and Goramlaut, Indonesia, bird): Almonds, Brazil Nuts, Grated date as a pet for apartment-dwellers or and to' the Palau Islands in the Pacific. Coconut, Macadamia Nuts, Peanuts, even for suburbanites living in relative­ Both races are considerably smaller Pine Nuts, Walnuts. ly congested areas. The species also than the Australian form. Triton also Also, in a separate dish: a commer­ has a reputation for longevity, and it differs from the mainland races in that cial pellet (Harrison's; Kaytee's Exact; may very well be that this beautiful its crest feathers are somewhat more G/V's Avian Pride, etc.). bird outlives all other parrots. rounded and broader, and that there is Prestwick tells us in "After Four almost no yellow to the ear coverts. Species Years" (Aviculture Magazine, 5th ser., Like fitzroyi its periophthalmic ring is Everybody knows the impressive Vol. 48,1943, pp 160-162), that the bird a light blue. Eleonora, while resem­ Greater Sulphur-crested Cockatoo Cocky, a resident of the London bling triton with somewhat more yel­ (Cacatua galerita galerita). Measuring Zoological Gardens, died at an authen­ low to the ear coverts and underlying 1 19 / 2 in., the bird is predominantly ticated age of 142 years! The species' bases of the throat feathers, has a white, with some yellow on the base longevity was recognized even as early much smaller bill. of the cheek, on the throat feathers as the last century. In 1899, Gurney In New Guinea the Triton Cockatoo and on the ear-coverts. The underside wrote an article titled "On the prefers the thick jungles found on hill­ of the tail and flight feathers have a Comparative Ages of Which Birds sides, and while it is more commonly yellow tinge as well. The eye-ring is Live," in which he records the authen­ found in lower and moderate eleva­ white, without little feathers, while the ticated ages ofthree birds that lived 80, tions, it is by no means uncommon in beak, legs and feet are dark gray. The 81 and 120 years. the forests often associated with high­ iris of the male is deep brown; the iris Given that there are few specimens er altitudes, and in some instances as of the female brown-red. Immature in captivity (as compared to the wild), high as 6000 feet above sea level. (I birds resemble their parents, but with and that avian medicine was virtually believe that as forest destruction at gray-brown color patches on the unknown a hundred years ago, the lower altitudes accelerates in response crown and on the back of the wings. fact that these kinds of instances of to plantation development a'nd expan­ They still possess brown irises. longevity exist is some indication of sion, the species is provided greater Of the four currently recognized the genetic makeup and hardiness of opportunity to explore and exploit subspecies, only two are endemic to the species. new altitudinal levels-an excellent Australia (Cacatua galerita galerita Two Indonesian sub-species are type of adaptation to man's alteration and C. g.fitzroyt). The Cacatua galeri­ known: the Cacatua galerita eleonora of the environment.) ta galerita has been recently intro­ or Eleonora or Medium Sulphur-crest­ It might be noted that there has duced to New Zealand, and appears to ed Cockatoo, and the Cacatua galerita been found to be a direct correlation have become established in several triton or Triton Cockatoo. between altitude preferred and the size locations. The other two races (triton of the species, at least as it is true of and eleonora) are found in the New Eleonora the Triton. Guinea region. The Eleonora or Medium Sulphur­ Ornithologist Dr. Arthur L. Rand In Australia, the Sulphur-crested crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita found that birds collected athigher alti­ Cockatoo inhabits the entire northern eleonora) is restricted to the Aru tudes collectively were much larger coastal region from Western Australia Islands which are situated approxi­ than individuals collected at more through to and including the Cape mately 200 kilometers west of West moderate altitudes.
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