White Cockatoos and Corellas
Cacatua
Cacatua is a genus of cockatoos known as great cockatoos found from the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands to Australia. They have a primarily white plumage (in some species tinged pinkish or yellow), an expressive crest, and a black (subgenus Cacatua) or pale (subgenus Licmetis) bill. Today, several species from this genus are considered threatened due to a combination of habitat loss and capture for the wild-bird trade, with the blue-eyed cockatoo considered vulnerable, Moluccan cockatoo, and umbrella cockatoo considered endangered, and the red-vented cockatoo, yellow-crested cockatoo and citron-crested cockatoo considered critically endangered.
18 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 13 known species
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
speciesCacatua galerita
Little Corella
speciesCacatua sanguinea
Long-billed Corella
speciesCacatua tenuirostris
Yellow-crested Cockatoo
speciesCacatua sulphurea
Pink Cockatoo
speciesCacatua leadbeateri
Tanimbar Corella
speciesCacatua goffiniana
Salmon-crested Cockatoo
speciesCacatua moluccensis
White Cockatoo
speciesCacatua alba
Western Corella
speciesCacatua pastinator
Solomons Corella
speciesCacatua ducorpsii
Tanimbar Corella × Yellow-crested Cockatoo
hybridCacatua goffiniana × sulphurea
Long-billed × Little Corella
hybridCacatua tenuirostris × sanguinea
Philippine Cockatoo
speciesCacatua haematuropygia
Citron-crested Cockatoo
speciesCacatua citrinocristata
White × Salmon-crested Cockatoo
hybridCacatua alba × moluccensis
Blue-eyed Cockatoo
speciesCacatua ophthalmica
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo × Little Corella
hybridCacatua galerita × sanguinea
Long-billed Corella × Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
hybridCacatua tenuirostris × galerita
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 71671.