Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Psittaciformes > Psittacidae > Cacatua > Cacatua albaCacatua alba (White Cockatoo)Synonyms: Cacatura alba; Psittacus albus The white cockatoo (Cacatua alba), 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 (similar to an umbrella, hence the alternative name). The undersides of the wings and tail have a pale yellow or lemon color which flashes 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. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 6.33807 EDGE Score: 3.37937 |
Adult Weight [1] | 1.257 lbs (570 g) |  | Diet [2] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore | Diet - Invertibrates [2] | 10 % | Diet - Seeds [2] | 90 % | Forages - Canopy [2] | 40 % | Forages - Mid-High [2] | 40 % | Forages - Understory [2] | 10 % | Forages - Ground [2] | 10 % |  | Clutch Size [4] | 2 | Clutches / Year [3] | 1 | Fledging [3] | 3 months 1 day | Incubation [1] | 30 days | Maximum Longevity [1] | 27 years | Snout to Vent Length [3] | 18 inches (46 cm) |  | Female Maturity [1] | 5 years 5 months | Male Maturity [1] | 5 years 5 months |
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Land Use |
Halmahera rain forests |
Indonesia |
Australasia |
Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests |
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Wallacea |
East Timor, Indonesia |
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Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 2Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 3Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 4Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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