White cockatoo (Cacatua alba)🦜

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SpeciesPsittaciformesPsittacidae
Birds

🦜White Cockatoo

Cacatua alba (Statius Muller, 1776)

The white cockatoo, also known as the umbrella cockatoo, is a medium-sized all-white cockatoo endemic to tropical rainforest on islands of Indonesia. When surprised, it extends a large and striking head crest, which has a semicircular shape. The wings and tail have a pale yellow or lemon color which is exposed when they fly. It is similar to other species of white cockatoo such as yellow-crested cockatoo, sulphur-crested cockatoo, and salmon-crested cockatoo, all of which have yellow, orange or pink crest feathers instead of white.

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≈ 1/110th of your weight
Conservation status
ENEndangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2021.

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

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

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

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

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

Beak length
0.04 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
27 years
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data quality: acceptable

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

Gestation
30 days
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data quality: acceptable

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

Litter size
about 2
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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
0.6 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 White 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. ›genusCacatua
  7. ›speciesCacatua alba
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  1. orderSauria
  2. classBirds · Aves
  3. orderParrots · Psittaciformes
  4. genusCacatua
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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. genusCacatua
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In other languages
Kakadu biała (pl), קקדו לבן (he), Cacatoès blanc (fr), Cacatua alba (es), fehérbóbitás kakadu (hu), Cacatua alba (it) … and 23 more languages
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