Citron-crested cockatoo

Appearance

The citron-crested cockatoo is a medium-sized cockatoo with an orange crest, dark grey beak, pale orange ear patches, and strong feet and claws. The underside of the larger wing and tail feathers has a pale yellow color. The eyelid color is a very light blue.

Range and habitat

Citron-crested cockatoo is recorded from Indonesia and Singapore.

GBIF currently lists 18 occurrence points. Those points follow where people logged the taxon — museum drawers and surveys included — not a closed range boundary.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Diet

The diet consists mainly of seeds, buds, fruits, nuts and herbaceous plants.

In crisis

In 2022, Birdlife International recognized the citron-crested cockatoo as a separate species, Citron-crested cockatoo, assessed as Critically Endangered, while the International Ornithological Congress designated it to be a species in 2023. The citron-crested cockatoo is a critically endangered bird whose population has declined due to habitat loss and illegal trapping for the cage-bird trade. A 1993 survey of Sumba estimated the species' numbers at less than 2,000 individuals.

By 2012, the estimate had dropped to 563, and as of 2019 the population numbers are estimated to be 1,200-2,000 individuals with 800-1,320 mature individuals.

Citron-crested cockatoo is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Citron-crested cockatoo, Wikidata item Q110257457 and GBIF occurrence geography. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.