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Where does the Sulphur-crested Cockatoo live?

Cacatua galerita has 1,323,300 records in 39 countries and territories, from 1788 to 2026. Most records come from Australia.

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo β€” JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) / CC BY-SA 3.0 Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPsittaciformesPsittacidaeCacatua

When it is recorded

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Peak month: October. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Australia 1,313,551
Papua New Guinea 4,213
Palau 2,092
New Zealand 1,703
Taiwan 823
Singapore 360
Indonesia 265
Bahamas 106
United States 70
Netherlands 16
Bermuda 15
Spain 11
United Arab Emirates 8
Philippines 6
Thailand 6
Macao 5
France 4
Guadeloupe 4
French Guiana 3
Japan 3
ZZ 3
Bahrain 2
United Kingdom 2
Hong Kong 2
India 2
Puerto Rico 2
RΓ©union 2
Austria 1
Belgium 1
Canada 1
Switzerland 1
Colombia 1
Germany 1
Micronesia 1
Greece 1
Italy 1
Mexico 1
Oman 1
Portugal 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.