Major Mitchell's Cockatoo - BirdForum Opus

Alternative name(s): Major Mitchell's Cockatoo

Cacatua leadbeateri

Photo by Recurvirostra
Mungo National Park, south-western New South Wales, Australia, April 2006

Identification

• White and salmon pink plumage
• Red and yellow crest

Distribution

Endemic to Australia: found in New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia.

Taxonomy

Pink Cockatoo is usually placed in the genus Cacatua, but all available evidence suggests placement of this species in a monotypic genus, Lophocroa (Brown & Toft, 1999).

Subspecies^[1]

Juvenile
Photo by Tiger1
Eyre Bird Observatory, Western Australia, June 2009

Two subspecies are recognized:

• C. l. mollis:

• Western Australia

• C. l. leadbeateri:

• Central and east-central Australia

Habitat

Photo by nightparrot
Freshwater Bore, Newhaven Station, Northern Territory, Australia, June 2008

Mallee woodland near water, eucalypt scrub, sparsely timbered grassland, woodland and mulga scrub.

Behaviour

Locally nomadic.

Diet

Their diet includes fruit.

References

1. Clements, JF. 2009. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2009. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Wikipedia

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Major Mitchell's Cockatoo. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 7 June 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Major_Mitchell%27s_Cockatoo

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