Videos of this behaviour can be seen by googling "Palm Cockatoo drumming".Ģ63204-D. Often when this happens a female is watching close by so it is assumed that it may be a courtship ritual, but no doubt it also advertises ownership of the territory to other birds. After carefully selecting and pruning a length of wood to be used as a "drumstick", male birds hold it in the foot and repeatedly bang the outside of the hollow, the resulting sound audible for up to 100 metres or so. Favoured nest holes are large vertical hollows such as occur at the top of a broken-off tree. Perhaps the most notable aspect of Palm Cockatoo behaviour is the habit called drumming. Unlike most other cockatoos they never form large flocks. When breeding, they occur in pairs or family groups but when concentrating on food sources gatherings of up to 30 have been reported occasionally but this is rare. Palm Cockatoos mainly inhabit rainforest but move out into nearby areas in search of food. Phylogenetic tree of cockatoo species, showing their relatedness to each other.Ĭlick on the link for more information and pictures of this cockatoo species.The Palm Cockatoo is the largest cockatoo to occur in Australia where it has a very limited distribution on far north Cape York Peninsula south to about Princess Charlotte Bay.
The Raven cockatoos are a separate group as well, with five species that are more related to each other than to all the other cockatoo species. In the graph you can also see that there are two groups of Cacatua species: the bigger species (with Cacatua alba) and the smaller corellas (with Cacatua sanguinea).
In this particular phylogenetic tree, the Palm cockatoo ( Probosciger) is the least related to all other species of cockatoos. Species that are less related to each other, will have a common ancestor that is farther up in the tree (to the left) than species that are more closely related.
You can determine the relatedness of two species by comparing the length of the bars, less distance between species means more relatedness. In the next graph you can see how all the cockatoo species are related to each other. Galah cockatoo ( Eolophus roseicapilla).Gang-Gang cockatoo ( Callocephalon fimbriatum).Long Billed-Black cockatoo ( Calyptorhynchus baudinii) – Baudin’s black cockatoo.Short-Billed Black cockatoo ( Calyptorhynchus latirostris) – Carnaby’s black cockatoo.Yellow-Tailed Black Cockatoo ( Calyptorhynchus funereus).Glossy Black Cockatoo ( Calyptorhynchus lathami).Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo ( Calyptorhynchus banksii).Raven Cockatoos / “Dark Cockatoos” (Calyptorhynchus Species) Long-Billed Corella (C acatua tenuirostris).Citron Crested Cockatoo ( Cacatua sulphurea citrinocristata) (subspecies of Lesser Sulphure-Crested Cockatoo).Lesser Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo ( Cacatua sulphurea).Blue-Eyed Cockatoo ( Cacatua ophthalmica).Moluccan Cockatoo ( Cacatua moluccensis).Major Mitchel’s Cockatoo ( Cacatua leadbeateri).Red-Vented Cockatoo ( Cacatua haematuropygia).Goffins cockatoo or Goffini cockatoo ( Cacatua goffini).Triton cockatoo ( Cacatua galerita triton) (subspecies of Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo).Mathews’ cockatoo ( Cacatua galerita fitzroyi) (subspecies of Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo).Eleonora cockatoo ( Cacatua galerita eleonora) (subspecies of Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo).Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo ( Cacatua galerita).Palm cockatoos, also known as the Goliath cockatoo - ESY-047812130 from agefotostocks photo.
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Here I will list all the species and add a link to a page that describes this species more closely. Download and buy this stock image: Cockatoo sitting in a tree. At the bottom of this page you will find a graph of the relatedness of these species. The species of cockatoo can be divided into white cockatoos ( Cacatua species), “dark” cockatoos ( Calyptorhynchus species) and a few other species. All species occur in Australia, Indonesia and the island around Oceania. Every one of these species has a crest that can be put up or down. There are 21 species of cockatoo in the world.
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