While the bird itself isn’t particularly unique, this hybrid solidly proves that at least some cockatoo hybrids are fertile. Although it looks similar to a pure little corella, having white plumage with yellow underwings, a bare eye, and reddish lore, it also has a gray beak and small yellow-orange crest feathers. It is 50% citron-crested
A somewhat uncommon hybrid that is rarely identified. It is believed that many citron-crested cockatoos available today have sulphur-crested or yellow-crested blood. Sulphur-crested x citron-crested hybrids are almost fully white with yellow underwing and tail feathers, as well as a yellow-orange crest. They are much smaller than pure sulphurs and have a more golden crest
A hybrid similar to a sunbrella cockatoo (umbrella x sulphur-crested), having almost fully white plumage with yellow underwings and a dark bill. However, umbrella x citron-crested crosses are often smaller and have mixed white and orange crests. Compared to sunbrellas, they are much less common due to the rarity of citron-crested cockatoos in captivity.
Although rare, Major Mitchell’s x Citron-crested cockatoos are some of the most sought-after cockatoo hybrids due to their unique colors. They are typically light pink or white with an vibrant salmon-colored crest and faded yellow underwing & tail feathers. Stronger reddish-pink can be found above the bill and on the ears – though this varies
The first little corella x citron-crested cockatoo hybrids, a clutch of five, were first bred at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1976. These crosses have yellow-orange crests protected by wider white base feathers up front. Their bills are grey, their eye rings are somewhat larger and droopy, and they typically have pale orange ears. Overall, though,
These uncommon hybrids were first bred in 1931 by H. Whitley, “his most interesting hybrid Rose-breasted and Lesser sulphur-crested Cockatoo, a striking bird of a silver-grey colour with rusty patches on its cheeks, rusty-yellow tinge over breast, and on the throat and collar, and yellow under the wings”. Galah x citron-crested cockatoos have a tangerine
A hybrid that could easily be confused with a pure citron-crested cockatoo due the Ducorps’s lack of notable features. It is completely white with a grey beak and small orange-tipped crest. While goffin’s cockatoo and little corella hybrids often have pale red-orange lores, Ducorps’s hybrids always lack these. Ducorps’s x citron-crested crosses are small in
