Major Mitchell's Cockatoo With Its Amazing Crest
Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo is a bird that has a crest and beautiful vibrant colors. They are adorable medium-sized cockatoos. Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo has a crest that looks like candy corn.
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This cockatoo, often called a Pink cockatoo because of its pale pink color, is named for Major Sir Thomas Mitchell, an explorer and surveyor of Southeast Australia in the 1800s. It has soft white and salmon-pink feathers and a large, bright yellow and red crest, and is generally regarded as the most beautiful amongst the cockatoos. Its underwings are orange-pink and the flight feathers are white. Males have dark brown eyes, and females pink or red eyes.