However, they never tire of destroying wood. Some of the toys devised to test Parrot intelligence and skills might keep them busy for a while but they are so observant and such quick learners that possibly they would soon tire of them. It is an enormous challenge to keep them occupied and contented. These are super-intelligent birds - especially the Australian Greater. See Moluccan Cockatoo for further information on this subject. Expect to devote as much time to them as you would to a human companion. Most of those offered for sale are hand-reared young. However, captive breeding of cockatoos has declined in recent years. The Triton and Eleonora Cockatoos are quite well established in Europe and the USA. Export was permitted from New Zealand because it is not a native species.

It is too familiar in most areas to be sought as a pet. The Greater Sulphur-crested Cockatoo is rarely available in Europe and the USA but is of course readily available in Australia where most captive birds are probably rescued chicks or fledglings. Triton Cockatoos originate from New Guinea and some of its offshore islands.Įleonora’s Cockatoos are found in the Aru group of islands in the southern Moluccas. There are thriving introduced populations in south-western Australia and in New Zealand. Greater Sulphur-crested: Australia, eastern and south-eastern areas from northern Queensland south to Tasmania, also coastal regions of the Northern Territory and the northern part of Western Australia. Triton and Eleonora: heavy trapping before and during the 1980s and continued illegal trapping has caused serious declines on some islands and lesser declines throughout much of the range. They leave the nest at the age of about eleven weeks. Possible slight difference in eye colour which is usually very dark brown, almost black: iris browner in the female and black in the male in others.ĭiffer from adults in having the iris grey and a pinkish tinge to the bare skin of the cere. Body less broad and massive.Įleonora: slightly smaller size but in practice difficult to separate from the Triton.Ĭ,g.eleonora about 530g. Triton: distinguished by smaller size and pale blue bare skin around eye, larger in extent and more prominent than in the Greater. (Crest feathers longest in northern sub-species fitzroyi). Greater: beak black but looks dark grey (covered in powder down), large size, crest of yellow forward-curving feathers.

Common namesĬockatoo Triton Cockatoo Eleonora or “Medium” Sulphur-crested Cockatoo. Scientific nameįor everything a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo may need please click here. Rosemary Low reveals more about the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo.

Different types of cockatoo bird