Sulphur-crested cockatoo

Cacatua galerita · Psittacidae

The sulphur-crested cockatoo is a relatively large white cockatoo found in wooded habitats in Australia, New Guinea, and some of the islands of Indonesia. They can be locally very numerous, leading to them sometimes being considered pests. As highly intelligent birds, they are well known in aviculture, although they can be demanding pets.

Where the Sulphur-crested cockatoo lives

Recorded in Ashmore and Cartier Is. (Oceania).

Most records fall in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, South Australia and Australian Capital Territory.

See the Sulphur-crested cockatoo’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 1,307,493 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.