Cacatua

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Cacatua sp - MHNT

Cacatua is a genus of 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 and yellow-crested cockatoo considered critically endangered.

Taxonomy

Although the name Cacatua was used in 1760 by French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson, he did not include it in his table of genera and Brisson is not recognised as the authority by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). The genus Kakatoe was introduced by Georges Cuvier in 1801 but this name has been suppressed by the ICZN and instead Louis Pierre Vieillot is recognised as introducing the genus Cacatua in 1817. The type species was designated as the white cockatoo by Tommaso Salvadori in 1891. The name Cacatua is from the Malay language words Kakatuá and Kakak-tuá for the cockatoos.

Species

The genus contains 13 species.

Subgenus	Image	Common name	Scientific name	Distribution
Cacatua - true white cockatoos	File:White Cockatoo eating clover-1 (5660422766).jpg	Yellow-crested (or lesser sulphur-crested) cockatoo,	Cacatua sulphurea	East Timor and Indonesia's islands of Sulawesi and the Lesser Sundas
	File:Citron-crested Cockatoo.jpg	Citron-crested cockatoo	Cacatua citrinocristata	Sumba in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia
	File:Cacatua galerita Risdon.jpg	Sulphur-crested cockatoo	Cacatua galerita	Australia, and New Guinea and some of the islands of Indonesia
	File:Cacatua ophthalmica -Vogelpark Walsrode-6b-3c.jpg	Blue-eyed cockatoo	Cacatua ophthalmica	New Britain in Papua New Guinea
	File:Cacatua alba -Pairi Daiza, Hainaut, Belgium-8a.jpg	White (or umbrella) cockatoo	Cacatua alba	Halmahera, Bacan, Ternate, Tidore, Kasiruta and Mandioli (Bacan group) in North Maluku, Indonesia
	File:Cacatua moluccensis -Cincinnati Zoo-8a.jpg	Salmon-crested (or Moluccan) cockatoo	Cacatua moluccensis	Seram archipelago in eastern Indonesia
Licmetis - corellas	File:Long-billed Corella (Cacatua tenuirostris) (8079603537).jpg	Long-billed corella	Cacatua tenuirostris	Australia
	File:Cacatua pastinato -Blackpool Zoo-8a.jpg	Western corella	Cacatua pastinator	South-western Australia
	File:Cacatua sanguinea upright crop.jpg	Little corella	Cacatua sanguinea	Australia and southern New Guinea
	File:Cacatua goffiniana -in tree-6.jpg	Tanimbar corella (or Goffin's cockatoo)	Cacatua goffiniana	Yamdena, Larat and Selaru, all islands in the Tanimbar Islands archipelago in Indonesia
	File:Cacatua ducorpsii-5-2c.jpg	Solomons corella (or Ducorps's cockatoo)	Cacatua ducorpsii	Solomon Islands archipelago
	File:Cacatua haematuropygia.jpg	Red-vented (or Philippine) cockatoo	Cacatua haematuropygia	Philippines
Lophochroa - pink cockatoos	File:Major Mitchell's Cockatoo (Lophochroa leadbeateri) (8079601633).jpg	Pink (or Major Mitchell's/Leadbeater's) cockatoo	Cacatua leadbeateri	Interior and western Australia

References

• Juniper, T., & M. Parr (1998). A Guide to the Parrots of the World. Pica Press, East Sussex. Template:ISBN