About the Pink Cockatoo
The pink cockatoo, also known as Major Mitchell's cockatoo or Leadbeater's cockatoo, is a medium-sized cockatoo that inhabits arid and semiarid inland areas across Australia, with the exception of the north-east.
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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 monotonous hues of the Australian forest than this beautiful species whose pink-coloured wings and flowing crest might have embellished the air of a more voluptuous region." Pink cockatoo females and males are almost identical. The males are usually bigger. The female has a broader yellow stripe on the crest and develops a red eye when mature.
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in September · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Tanimbar CorellaCacatua goffinianaTanimbar corellas weigh, on average, about 250 g (9 oz) for females and 300 g (11 oz) for males.
Western CorellaCacatua pastinatorCacatua pastinator is a white cockatoo with the upper wing entirely white and under surface of the wing pale yellow.
Yellow-crested CockatooCacatua sulphureaThe yellow-crested cockatoo also known as the lesser sulphur-crested cockatoo, is a medium-sized cockatoo with white plumage, bluish-white bare orbital skin, grey feet, a black bill, and a retractile yellow or orange crest.
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