Similar to the brush turkey, sulphur-crested cockatoos have readily adapted to the suburbs and are often regarded as pests, damaging seedlings and trimming their beaks on garden furniture and cladding.
Home to a prolific endemic population of forest birds, butterflies and the startling white sulphur-crested cockatoos, the emeralds of the ancient tropical rainforest were remarkable.
The documents showed the strain was similar to that of the sulphur-crested cockatoo, indicating that the outbreak was most likely sourced from the wild.