About the Blue-eyed Cockatoo
The blue-eyed cockatoo is a large, mainly white cockatoo about 50 cm (20 in) long with a mobile crest, a black beak, and a light blue rim of featherless skin around each eye that gives this species its name.
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The blue-eyed cockatoo is a large, about 50-cm-long, mainly white cockatoo with an erectile yellow and white crest, a black beak, dark grey legs, and a light blue rim of featherless skin around each eye, that gives this species its name. The sexes are very similar in appearance. Some males have dark brown irises and some females have reddish-brown irises, but this small difference is not always reliable as a sex indicator.
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Where the Blue-eyed Cockatoo lives
When to see the Blue-eyed Cockatoo
Peak activity in July · a winter visitor species across most of its range
Easily confused with
White CockatooCacatua albaThe white cockatoo is around 46 cm (18 in) long, and weighs about 400 g (14 oz) for small females and up to 800 g (28 oz) for big males.
Salmon-crested CockatooCacatua moluccensisThe salmon-crested cockatoo, also known as the Moluccan cockatoo, is a cockatoo endemic to the Seram archipelago in eastern Indonesia.
Solomons CorellaCacatua ducorpsiiThe Solomons corella is about 30 cm (12 in) long.
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