Short-billed Black Cockatoo

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Short-billed Black Cockatoo

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Cacatuidae
Subfamily: Calyptorhynchinae
Genus: Calyptorhynchus
Subgenus: Zanda
Species: C. latirostris
Binomial name
Calyptorhynchus latirostris
Carnaby, 1948

The Short-billed Black Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus latirostris is a cockatoo endemic to south-western Australia. It is also known as the Large Black Cockatoo, and Carnaby's Black-Cockatoo. It is black with white tail feathers and white cheek patches. They eat seeds and larvae, and are on the endangered list.

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