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The yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Zanda funerea) is a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia measuring 55–65 cm (22–26 in) in length. It has a short crest on the top of its head. Its plumage is mostly brownish black and it has prominent yellow cheek patches and a yellow tail band. The body feathers are edged with yellow giving ...
Sulphur-crested cockatoos are 44–55 cm (17.5–21.5 in) long, [6] with the Australian subspecies larger than subspecies from New Guinea and nearby islands. The plumage is overall white, while the underwing and -tail are tinged yellow. The expressive crest is yellow. The bill is black, the legs are grey, and the eye-ring is whitish.
The cockatiel is alternatively placed basal to all other cockatoo species, [13] [23] as the sister taxon to the black cockatoo species of the genus Calyptorhynchus [16] [22] [24] or as the sister taxon to a clade consisting of the white and pink cockatoo genera as well as the palm cockatoo. [14]
There are 21 species of cockatoos, [4] with the greater sulphur-crested cockatoo belonging to the genus Cacatua, the white cockatoos, of which there are 11 species. [4] Of the four subspecies, it is most closely related to the Mathews' cockatoo. Many of their genetic traits cannot be distinguished as exclusive to either one subspecies, and ...
Cacatua sp - MHNT. Cacatua is a genus of cockatoos found from the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, 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.
The species complex was first described by the ornithologist John Latham in 1790 as Psittacus banksii, [4] commemorating English botanist Sir Joseph Banks.The red-tailed black cockatoo also has the distinction of being the first bird from Eastern Australia illustrated by a European, as a female, presumably collected at Endeavour River in north Queensland, was sketched by Banks' draughtsman ...
In the 18th century, yellow-crested cockatoos were imported into Europe as pets and these birds were described by various naturalists. In 1738 English naturalist Eleazar Albin included a description and illustration of the "Cockatoo or White crested parrot" in his A Natural History of Birds based on a bird displayed at "The Tiger" tavern on Tower Hill in London. [7]
Carnaby's black cockatoo (Zanda latirostris), also known as the short-billed black cockatoo, is a large black cockatoo endemic to southwest Australia. It was described in 1948 by naturalist Ivan Carnaby. Measuring 53–58 cm (21–23 in) in length, it has a short crest on the top of its head.