Yellow-tailed black cockatoo: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the yellow-tailed black cockatoo lives – recorded in 1 country, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Zanda funerea
Group	Parrots
Status	Least concern (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	1 country
Continents	Oceania
Class	Bird
Order	Psittaciformes
Family	Cacatuidae

Where does the yellow-tailed black cockatoo live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the yellow-tailed black cockatoo in 1 country or territory across Oceania.

Australia

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

Is the yellow-tailed black cockatoo endangered?

The yellow-tailed black cockatoo’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Least concern” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the yellow-tailed black cockatoo?

The yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Zanda funerea) is a bird in the order Psittaciformes and the family Cacatuidae, genus Zanda. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the yellow-tailed black cockatoo

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 bone-coloured beak and grey eye-rings. In flight, yellow-tailed black cockatoos flap deeply and slowly, with a peculiar heavy fluid motion. Their loud, wailing calls carry for long distances. The yellow-tailed black cockatoo is found in temperate forests and forested areas across south and central eastern Queensland to southeastern South Australia, including a very small population persisting in the Eyre Peninsula. Two subspecies are recognised, although Tasmanian and southern mainland populations of the southern subspecies xanthanotus may be distinct enough from each other to bring the total to three. Birds of subspecies funereus (Queensland to eastern Victoria) have longer wings and tails and darker plumage overall, while those of xanthanotus (western Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania) have more prominent scalloping.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Yellow-tailed black cockatoo (revision 1380253700), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q28107872 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).