![]() The Palm Cockatoo is a large dark-grey cockatoo with large dark grey bill. The female has a paler bill and grey ring round eye. The male has dark grey upper bill and pink ring round eye. The Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo is a large black cockatoo with round yellow marking on ear. This cockatoo is smaller than the Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo. Male birds have pink eye ring and females have grey eye ring. The Short-billed Black Cockatoo is a large black cockatoo with round white marking on ear. The Red-tailed Black Cockatoo is a large black cockatoo. The eye is dark grey and the legs are greyish brown. It has a white face patch and white band on the outer tail feathers. The Long-billed Black-Cockatoo is a dark grey cockatoo with short crest on top of the head. Females are dark brown with some yellow markings on the head and tail. Males are black with dark brown head and red band on the outer tail feathers. The Glossy Black-Cockatoo is a fairly small black cockatoo. Immature birds look like the hen except for some red in the head feathers in young males Click to continue> The Gang-Gang Cockatoo is a dark grey cockatoo. The eye is surrounded by a greyish blue ring of bare skin, and there is a small pink patch between the eye and the bill. The Western Corella is a white cockatoo with cockatoo with short white crest that it can raise. These cockatoos are sold in the pet trade and can be kept as a pet in large cage or aviary. It is the largest white cockatoo in Australia. The Sulphur-crested Cockatoo is a large white cockatoo with bright yellow crest. The male has a dark brown eye, the female has a reddish eye. The crest appears white when down, but shows bright red and yellow bands when raised. Major Mitchell's Cockatoo is an attractive white and pink cockatoo with a crest. There is a faint yellowish tinge on the undersides of the wings. ![]() It has a small crest that is usually folded flat. It has orange-red markings across forehead and across the throat. The Long-billed Corella is a white cockatoo with long whitish bill. It is similar in appearance to the Western Corella, but is smaller (and much smaller than the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo). It has some pink feathers around the throat and bill. The Little Corella is a small white cockatoo with small crest. Juvenile Galahs have a grey breast and a grey eye-ring. Its crest varies from pink in Western Australia to white throughout the rest of Australia. The male has dark brown eye and female has red eye. The Galah is pale grey above and pink below. ![]() Logrunners, Whipbirds, Pittas, Lyrebirds.Pirated Parrots Archived at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 8 September 2011. Archived from the original on 5 August 2011. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "BirdLife International (2011) Species factsheet: Cacatua alba".The ultimate encyclopedia of caged and aviary birds. Approximately 40% of the parrots (White Cockatoo, Chattering Lory, Violet-necked Lory and Eclectus Parrot) caught in Halmahera are smuggled to the Philippines, while approximately 60% go to the domestic Indonesian trade, especially via bird markets in Surabaya and Jakarta. RSPCA supported surveys by the Indonesian NGO ProFauna suggest that significant levels of trade in wild-caught White Cockatoos still occur, with 200+ taken from the wild in north Halmahera in 2007. BirdLife International indicates that catch quotas issued by the Indonesian government were 'exceeded by up to 18 times in some localities' in 1991. \ It is listed in appendix II of the CITES list which gives it protection by restricting export and import of wild-caught birds. Its numbers in the wild have declined owing to capture for the cage bird trade and habitat loss. The White Cockatoo is considered vulnerable by the IUCN. The white-crested cockatoo is about 17.5 inches long.Ĭonservation status Appearance Ĭockatoos have black bills made of keratin. ![]() The birds in this genus are outdoor birds in Australia and the islands north of Australia and including the Philippines. It is one of a larger group of birds in the family Cacatuidae. It is also called the white cockatoo and the umbrella cockatoo. The white-crested cockatoo ( binomial name Cacatua alba), is a bird.
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