#1357 · 🐦 birds
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
🇳🇱 Grote Geelkuifkaketoe ·Cacatua galerita
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what is it?
The sulphur-crested cockatoo ( Cacatua galerita ) is a relatively large white cockatoo found in wooded habitats in Australia and New Guinea and some of the islands of Indonesia. They can be locally very numerous, leading to them sometimes being considered pests. A highly intelligent bird, they are well known in aviculture, although they can be demanding pets.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 33,788 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by John Latham in 1790 (236 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
- Nederlands
- Grote Geelkuifkaketoe
- scientific name
- Cacatua galerita
- class
- Aves
- order
- Psittaciformes
- family
- Cacatuidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 33,788
- GBIF records in NL
- 16
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1790 by John Latham
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Cacatuidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 116834, Wikidata Q207107, GBIF 2479888, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.