Cacatua

 ( Cacatuini ) 

Cacatua is a genus of found from the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Solomon Islands to Australia. They have a primarily white plumage (in some species tinged pinkish or yellow), an expressive crest, and a black (subgenus Cacatua) or pale (subgenus Licmetis) bill. Today, several species from this genus are considered threatened due to a combination of habitat loss and capture for the wild-bird trade, with the blue-eyed cockatoo considered vulnerable, Moluccan cockatoo, and White cockatoo considered endangered, and the red-vented cockatoo, yellow-crested cockatoo and citron-crested cockatoo considered critically endangered.

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Taxonomy Although the name Cacatua was used in 1760 by French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson, he did not include it in his table of genera and Brisson is not recognised as the authority by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). The genus Kakatoe was introduced by Georges Cuvier in 1801 but this name has been suppressed by the ICZN and instead Louis Pierre Vieillot is recognised as introducing the genus Cacatua in 1817. The type species was designated as the white cockatoo by Tommaso Salvadori in 1891. The name Cacatua is from the Malay language words Kakatuá and Kakak-tuá for the cockatoos.

James A. Jobling (2025). 9781408125014, Christopher Helm. . ISBN 9781408125014

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Species

The genus contains 13 species.

	Citron-crested cockatoo	Cacatua citrinocristata	Sumba in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia
	Sulphur-crested cockatoo	Cacatua galerita	Australia, and New Guinea and some of the islands of Indonesia
	Blue-eyed cockatoo	Cacatua ophthalmica	New Britain in Papua New Guinea
	White cockatoo	Cacatua alba	Halmahera, Bacan, Ternate, Tidore, Kasiruta and Mandioli (Bacan group) in North Maluku, Indonesia
	Salmon-crested (or Moluccan) cockatoo	Cacatua moluccensis	Seram archipelago in eastern Indonesia
	Western corella	Cacatua pastinator	South-western Australia
	Little corella	Cacatua sanguinea	Australia and southern New Guinea
	Tanimbar corella	Cacatua goffiniana	Yamdena, Larat and Selaru, all islands in the Tanimbar Islands archipelago in Indonesia
	Solomons corella	Cacatua ducorpsii	Solomon Islands archipelago
	Red-vented (or Philippine) cockatoo	Cacatua haematuropygia	Philippines

• Juniper, T., & M. Parr (1998). A Guide to the Parrots of the World. Pica Press, East Sussex.

Categories: Cacatuini, Bird Genera, Taxa Named By Louis Pierre Vieillot

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