Endangered
Salmon-crested Cockatoo
Cacatua moluccensis
The salmon-crested cockatoo, also known as the Moluccan cockatoo, is a cockatoo endemic to the Seram archipelago in eastern Indonesia.
Appearance
At a height of up to 46–52 cm (1.51–1.71 ft) and weight of up to 850 g (1.87 lb), it is among the largest of the white cockatoos. It has white-pink feathers with a definite peachy glow, a slight yellow on the underwing and underside of the tail feathers and a large retractable recumbent crest, that it raises when threatened, revealing hitherto concealed bright red-orange plumes to frighten potential attackers. Some describe the crest as "flamingo-colored".
Range and habitat
The salmon-crested cockatoo is endemic to the Seram archipelago in eastern Indonesia, and has been introduced to the Hawai'ian island of Oahu, where a small population has become established. The salmon-crested cockatoo, also known as the Moluccan cockatoo, is a cockatoo endemic to the Seram archipelago in eastern Indonesia. In the wild, the salmon-crested cockatoo inhabits lowland forests below 1,000 metres or 3,300 feet.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
Moluccan cockatoos breed once a year, usually between December and March, when vegetation growth is at its peak and food is readily available. Its diet consists mainly of seeds, nuts, and fruit, as well as coconuts.
Some additional evidence shows that they eat insects off the ground, and pet Moluccan cockatoos have tested positive for anemia if their diets do not include enough protein.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Salmon-crested Cockatoo is 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 Salmon-crested Cockatoo, Wikidata item Q735231. 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.
