Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo in Renaissance painting

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rest.12042/abstract These are quotes from the paper which has been “Online early” since 3 Nov 2013. Guess the Chinese have been trading in Wallacea – Papua for a very long time…. “Although the parrot has been labelled a White Cockatoo (Cacatua alba), it is now generally recognized as being a species of Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita)” “In 2004 Bruce Thomas Boehrer identified the parrot as a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, acknowledging that it would have been ‘a particularly rare bird in Renaissance Europe, native not to the New World but to New Guinea and Australia’. Richard Verdi, the curator of the 2007 exhibition The Parrot in Art at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, went one step further, identifying the parrot as a Lesser Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea) (Fig. 2). These are found in Indonesia (in the areas east and northeast of the Java Sea: Bali, Timor-Leste and Timor, the Lesser Sunda Islands and on Sulawesi) and are smaller than their Australian counterparts – measuring approximately thirty-five centimetres from beak to tail tip. _______________________________________________ Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: http://birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org