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The palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus), also known as the goliath cockatoo or great black cockatoo, is a large, smoky-grey/black parrot of the cockatoo family native to New Guinea, the Aru Islands and the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia.
Black Palm Cockatoos are the largest of the world’s cockatoo species (there are 18 in total). They can grow to up to 24 inches long and weigh up to 3 pounds.
The second and larger branch is formed by the genus Cacatua, comprising 12 species of white-plumaged cockatoos and three monotypic genera that branched off earlier; namely the pink and grey galah, the mainly grey gang-gang cockatoo and the large black-plumaged palm cockatoo. Cockatoos prefer to eat seeds, tubers, corms, fruit, flowers and ...
Described by French naturalist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1826, [2] the genus Calyptorhynchus has two species of cockatoos. They are all mostly black in colour, and the taxa may be differentiated partly by size and partly by small areas of red, grey, and yellow plumage, especially in the tail feathers.
Superfamily Cacatuoidea: cockatoos [17] Family Cacatuidae. Subfamily Nymphicinae: one genus with one species, the cockatiel; Subfamily Calyptorhynchinae: the black cockatoos; Subfamily Cacatuinae. Tribe Microglossini: one genus with one species, the black palm cockatoo; Tribe Cacatuini: four genera of white, pink, and grey species
Black cockatoo is a general descriptive term for cockatoos that are mainly black and may include: Palm cockatoo, Probosciger aterrimus, also called great black cockatoo; Species of the genus Calyptorhynchus: Red-tailed black cockatoo, Calyptorhynchus banksii, has several alternative common names including black cockatoo
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This is a list of the bird species recorded in the archipelago of Puerto Rico, which consists of the main island of Puerto Rico, two island municipalities off the east coast (Vieques and Culebra), three uninhabited islands off the west coast (Mona, Monito and Desecheo) and more than 125 smaller cays and islands.