#1461 · 🐦 birds
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
🇳🇱 Geeloograafkaketoe ·Zanda funerea
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
what is it?
The yellow-tailed black cockatoo ( Zanda funerea ) is a large cockatoo native to the south-east of Australia measuring 55–65 cm (22–26 in) in length. It has a short crest on the top of its head. Its plumage is mostly brownish black and it has prominent yellow cheek patches and a yellow tail band. The body feathers are edged with yellow giving a scalloped appearance. The adult male has a black beak and pinkish-red eye-rings, and the female has a...
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.
- 17,753 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by George Shaw in 1794 (232 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo
- Nederlands
- Geeloograafkaketoe
- scientific name
- Zanda funerea
- class
- Aves
- order
- Psittaciformes
- family
- Cacatuidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 17,753
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1794 by George Shaw
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Cacatuidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1432688, Wikidata Q28107872, GBIF 10759934, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.