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will a female lesser sulpher cockatoo mate with a different kind of cockatoo?
i am looking for a mate for my female but not having any luck finding a male lesser sulphur cockatoo

Are you the same Brian and Kathy who began posting on Up at Six in 1999 when you first began breeding 'tiels? If so, I know you are good people who love your birds. Hybridizing endangered 'toos is not the right way to treat birds. Please don't do that. It's so wrong.

Sincerely, Paca

Short answer? Yes.

Long answer? Would it be morally and ethical appropriate to allow her to hybridize with another species that she may or may not hybridize with in the wild? That would depend on who you ask.... IMO, you should not hybridize, especially the rarer species, as we are destroying their natural habitat which leads to extinction. Therefore, we should strive to preserve what species we have in captivity, common or rare.

My biggest question is, why do you want to breed her? Is she a pet? Or a breeder?

Umbrella x Triton Hybrid


Galah x Bare Eyed


Citron x Galah


Galah x Goffin


Galah x Corella (long billed I think? could be wrong)


Galah x Cockatiel


Umbrella x Citron

Those poor hybrids!!! It makes me sad to see people mixing up a bunch of anything to get something unique & charge an arm and a leg. PLEASE dont do this!

You should be able to find a male lesser sulphur ! Certainly, older males are a lot easier to find than females and fairly inexpensive. An older wild-caught male will do fine, if you want babies. I think that most of the 'toos were no longer imported by the 1970's, except for goffin's and ducorps in the late 1980's, when they were displaced by the logging industry in the Indonesian territories, and they were quite cheap, with very little knowledge about their breeding in captivity. They went as low as $50 , which means the importers bought them for less than $5.

Since most of the captive-reared lesser sulphers went into the pet trade, and with the older breeders now dying out at age 50 or 60, the market and price for baby lessers is still high

Now for the hard part: My home-hatched young hen (1990) from imported parents did not mature till she was 12, but she laid her eggs from the perch onto the wire for about 2 years; then she started laying in the nest, but because the male had a history of scrambling the eggs by rushing into the nest, we pulled the eggs for incubating. Last year, I did not have time, and they raised one baby till I pulled it at 2 weeks, and I now have this year's baby. The hen is no longer tame, but she also isn't afraid, so she can ge quite nasty during feeding and cleaning.