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Casper, the friendly ghost-ly parrot. 10.49

Barretta may be looking for you!

A good name for a white bird.

mAen! 7:08 An avian theme day?

Good maEn!
He looks smart

Birds galore, today! Cute name.

Good afternoon to all, and hello Casper! This site is going to the birds today!

So what do they call them when the crest is white?

I've heard them call the yellow ones sulphur-crested.

Casper is a perky looking fellow!

The Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo is native to Australia and it's crest is, as the name implies, yellow. I've never heard of one with a white crest but it might be an albino. I see someone in the background of the photo and perhaps he knows?

5.42 a new best time for me...i thought that albinos had pink\red eyes????????

naomi - dunno, maybe someone else can help?

This is a corella, not a cockatoo but a smaller, similar bird. They get around in huge flocks and are the noisiest, most destructive birds you can imagine. They like to sit in trees and just peck off leaves and small branches just for the fun of it, and are the banes of farmers everywhere when More...

A little bit more info..there are Corellas and Little Corellas, but I'm not sure which this is. They aren't albino, just all-white parrots. A wonderful outback sight is seeing them roost in the big River Redgums at dusk where they look like huge white blossoms all over the trees. I must dig out my photos and Flickr them.....one day.

9:10 Hi to all.

We had a long billed corella once. It was about the size of a cockatoo (sulphur crested), but it's beak was bigger & looked more vicious! This was a tame bird that had flown into a friend's yard but she had no where to keep it so it came to us for a while. It was an escape artist of Houdini's More...

Looking more closely at that bird I don't think it's a little corella either (sorry Tree Sheila) because they don't have large crests like that & have different grey eye markings, also some pink feathers in the head feathers (of the male) & between the eye & the beak. This is probably from somewhere other than Australia.

5.46 cute little fella anyway

Hello Casper - You are a cutie!

What a coincidence! I also have an umbrella cockatoo named Casper who looks just like yours. Loving birds, aren't they? Beautiful picture!

I think this bird is a hybrid between a sulphur-crested cockatoo and a corella. The blue eye-patch is characteristic of the corella but it's usually larger. Meanwhile, corellas don't have anything like this much crest, as I understand it. Theoretically you could probably get such a hybrid in the More...

mAen. 9.05

5:10. Hello Casper.

Thanks Kate - I stand corrected. I just jumped in assuming it to be an Oz bird, but I'm sure you're right.

6.55 Who's a pretty Casper then. That's the type of bird my town is named after! Although ours are the Sulphur-Crested, they have a yellow coloured crest. This one is the White or Umbrella Cockatoo.