Cockatoo
Any bird in the family Cacatuidae For other uses, see Cockatoo (disambiguation). Cockatoo Galah in Australia. Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Psittaciformes Superfamily: Cacatuoidea Family: Cacatuidae G. R. Gray 1840 Type genus Cacatua Vieillot 1817 [1] Genera Probosciger Callocephalon Nymphicus Calyptorhynchus Eolophus Lophochroa Cacatua Current range of cockatoos – red Finds of recent fossils – blue Synonyms Plyctolophinae Vigors 1825 [2] A cockatoo is a parrot that is any of the 21 species belonging to the bird family Cacatuidae , the only family in the superfamily Cacatuoidea. Along with the Psittacoidea (true parrots) and the Strigopoidea (large New Zealand parrots), they make up the order Psittaciformes (parrots). The family has a mainly Australasian distribution, ranging from the Philippines and the eastern Indonesian islands of Wallacea to New Guine