cockatoo

📅 Updated:2026-09-02

🕒 Created:2016-01-28

🆔 ID:9995

Description

A [color=species]cockatoo[/color] is any of the various parrots of the family [color=species]Cacatuidae[/color]. Native to Australia and adjacent areas, most cockatoos are characterized by a long, erectile crest.

Taxonomy

Family Cacactuidae

Subfamily Cacatuinae
- Tribe Cacatuini
  - Cacatua — great cockatoo
    - (Cacatua)
      - Cacactua alba — umbrella cockatoo
      - Cacactua galerita — sulphur-crested cockatoo
      - Cacactua moluccensis — Moluccan cockatoo
      - Cacactua ophthalmica — blue-eyed cockatoo
      - Cacactua sulphurea — yellow-crested cockatoo
    - (Limectis) — corella
      - Cacactua ducorpsii — Solomons cockatoo
      - Cacactua goffiniana — Tanimbar cockatoo
      - Cacactua haematuropygia — red-vented cockatoo
      - Cacactua pastinator — western corella
      - Cacactua sanguinea — little corella
      - Cacactua tenuirostris — long-billed corella
  - Callocephalon
    - Callocephalon fimbriatum — gang-gang cockatoo
  - Eolophus
    - Eolophus roseicapilla — galah
  - Lophochroa
    - Lophochroa leadbeateri — Major Mitchell's cockatoo
- Tribe Microglossini
  - Probosciger
    - Probosciger aterrimus — palm cockatoo