sulphurea subspecies suggesting relatively low levels of divergence comparable to that among other cockatoo subspecies,” the study’s senior author, Professor Merilä explained to me in email.

Sulphur-crested cockatoos are a familiar, squawking, presence across much of Australia and Melanesia. But according to a ...

Until now, no whole-genome research had been conducted on either species." Scientists make stunning discovery while studying ...

The new subspecies of red-tailed cockatoo, previously thought to be a part of the inland subspecies, was discovered by scientists after a decade-long search.

The other study, in Molecular Ecology, focused on the critically endangered Yellow-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua sulphurea), native to Indonesia and East Timor, using DNA extracted from 100-year-old ...

Ecologists at the School of Biological Sciences of The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made discoveries that could transform the conservation of two iconic cockatoo species: the Sulphur-crested ...

Ms Penck said the Eyre Peninsula birds were one of several subspecies of the yellow-tailed black cockatoo. "The subspecies found on the Eyre Peninsula is the same as the one found in the rest of ...