Cockatiel vs. Cockatoo

Cockatielnoun

Nymphicus hollandicus, a small, rather atypical cockatoo with a distinctive pointed yellow crest. Comes in many color mutations such as White Face Gray, White Face Pearl, Fallow, Pearl Pied, Cinnamon Pearl, and White Face Pied. Native to Australia but most known in aviculture.

Cockatielnoun

A small gray and white Australian parrot (Leptolophus hollandicus, formerly Calopsitta Novæ-Hollandiæ) with a prominent crest; the male has bright yellow cheeks and crest, but the female has only a pale yellow in the face; - it is so called from its note.

Cockatielnoun

small gray Australian parrot with a yellow crested head

Cockatielnoun

a slender long-crested Australian parrot related to the cockatoos, with a mainly grey body, white shoulders, and a yellow and orange face.

Cockatiel

The cockatiel (Nymphicus hollandicus), also known as weiro bird, or quarrion, is a small parrot that is a member of its own branch of the cockatoo family endemic to Australia. They are prized as household pets and companion parrots throughout the world and are relatively easy to breed.

Cockatoonoun

A bird of the family Cacatuidae with a curved beak and a zygodactyl foot.

Cockatoonoun

A lookout posted during a two-up game, when gambling was illegal.

Cockatoonoun

A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinæ, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested cockatoo (Plictolophus cristatus or Cacatua cristatus), the sulphur-crested (Cacatua galerita or Plictolophus galeritus), etc. The palm cockatoo or great black cockatoo of Australia is Probosciger aterrimus (formerly Microglossus aterrimus).

Cockatoonoun

white or light-colored crested parrot of the Australian region; often kept as cage birds

Cockatoonoun

a parrot with an erectile crest, found in Australia, eastern Indonesia, and neighbouring islands.

Cockatoonoun

a small-scale farmer.

Cockatoonoun

a lookout posted by those engaged in illegal activity

Cockatoo

A cockatoo is any of the 21 parrot species belonging to the family Cacatuidae, the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea. Along with the Psittacoidea (true parrots) and the Strigopoidea (large New Zealand parrots), they make up the order Psittaciformes.