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    Pink cockatoo - Wikipedia

    • The pink cockatoo (Cacatua leadbeateri), also known as Major Mitchell's cockatoo or Leadbeater's cockatoo, is a medium-sized cockatoo that inhabits arid and semi-arid inland areas across Australia, with the exception of the north east. See more

    Taxonomy and naming

    Irish naturalist Nicholas Aylward Vigors described the species in 1831 as Plyctolophus leadbeateri. The scientific name … See more

    Description

    The pink cockatoo has a soft-textured white and salmon-pink plumage and large, bright red and yellow crest. Its former name referenced Major Thomas Mitchell, who wrote, "Few birds more enliven the monotonou… See more

    DomainEukaryota
    KingdomAnimalia
    PhylumChordata
    ClassAves
    The Majestic Major Mitchell's Cockatoo
    The Majestic Major Mitchell's Cockatoo
    The Stunning Pink Cockatoo
    The Stunning Pink Cockatoo
    Distribution and habitat

    In contrast to those of the galah, populations of pink cockatoos have declined rather than increased as a result of man-made changes to the arid interior of Australia. Where galahs readily occupy cleared an… See more

    Conservation status

    The pink cockatoo is listed as endangered under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
    • The pink cockatoo is listed as a threatened species on the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee … See more

    Aviculture

    "Cookie" was a pink cockatoo and a beloved resident of Illinois' Brookfield Zoo near Chicago from the time the zoo opened in 1934 until his death on 27 August 2016. Cookie was 83 years old and he had been retired fro… See more

    Gallery

    • "Plyctolophus leadbeateri, Leadbeater's Cockatoo" in Lear's influential 1832 monograph.
    • Cookie, a cockatoo that lived to be 83 years old, housed in the Brookfield Zoo … See more

    Further reading

    • Fluffies.org (2006): Zazu the Major Mitchells cockatoo Archived 2 January 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2006-JAN-14. See more

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