Cacatua albus = Cacatua alba (White cockatoo) « Cacatua albus » = Cacatua alba (White cockatoo)
Date between 1833 and 1839
Artist Adolph Fries (1774–1840)
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Guérin, Dictionnaire pittoresque d'histoire naturelle, pl. 274
Old Latin name Cacatua albus
New Latin name Cacatua alba
Common name Nederlands: Witte kaketoe
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The white cockatoo (Cacatua alba), also known as the umbrella cockatoo, is a medium-sized all-white cockatoo endemic to tropical rainforest on islands of Indonesia. When surprised, it extends a large and striking head crest, which has a semicircular shape (similar to an umbrella, hence the alternative name). The wings and tail have a pale yellow or lemon color which is exposed when they fly.
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Cacatuidae
Genus: Cacatua
Subgenus: Cacatua
Species: Cacatua alba Müller, 1776