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SpeciesPsittaciformesPsittacidae
Birds

🦜Palm Cockatoo

Probosciger aterrimus (Gmelin, 1788)

The palm cockatoo, also known as the goliath cockatoo or great black cockatoo, is a large, smoky-grey/black parrot of the cockatoo family native to New Guinea, the Aru Islands and the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia. It has a crest of long feathers atop its head, with a very large and strong, sharply-hooked black beak, and prominent bright-red cheek patches.

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Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2023.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.84 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
56 years
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Everything we know about the Palm Cockatoo

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0.84 kg
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 0.84 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.23 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.34 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.09 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.03 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
56 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
0.8 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Palm Cockatoo yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderPsittaciformes
  5. ›familyPsittacidae
  6. ›genusProbosciger
  7. ›speciesProbosciger aterrimus
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  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  4. genusProbosciger
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  11. genusProbosciger
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kakadu arový (cs), Palmkakadu (de), Cacatoès noir (fr), pálmakakadu (hu), ヤシオウム (ja), Чёрный какаду (ru) … and 23 more languages
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Palm cockatoo PortraitPalm Cockatoo 0A2A7769Probosciger aterrimus, Cape York 1
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