Yellow Crested Cockatoo

The Yellow-crested Cockatoo is found in wooded areas of East Timor and Indonesia's islands of Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas. It is medium in size, approximately 35 cm in length and its diet consists of seeds, buds, fruits, nuts and herbaceous plants. These birds nests in tree cavities and the eggs incubation is shared by both parents, there are often two eggs in a nest, the eggs hatch after 28 days, then they leave the nest after 75 days. Their beaks are round and hard, probably used to crush small hard nuts or insects.