Searching for an A. cacatuoides resource..

[KittyKat]

I wonder if there is a list of all (or at least many) colour morphs of the Cockatoos somewhere online..? I have been looking for one for a while now and can't seem to find anything reliable, has anyone here had any better luck or written their own?

 

[Mike Wise]

I can only speak for myself. I have seen photos of many different populations of wild A. cacatuoides for Peru, Colombia, and Brazil. Most are only color morphs of the basic wild A. cacatuoides, but some are different and might represents separate species. As for domestic strains, there are more names that actual color forms. It seems that every commercial breeder has its own pet name for its variation on a color morph. These names (except the more generic ones) really have no meaning.

 

[KittyKat]

Hmm, I know what you mean.. but even a list of aliases could be useful as I have found many SA dwarf beginners confused by all the different names in the trade. I would normally not bother with them myself, although I have recently wondered if there was any better way to describe fish other then "this fin is this colour with that pattern" and so on when not using a visual aid.