Cacatuidae

A cockatoo is any of the 21 species of parrots belonging to the 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. The family has a mainly Australasian distribution, ranging from the Philippines and the eastern Indonesian islands of Wallacea to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Australia.

The subfamily Cacatuinae consists of two tribes, the Microglossini with one species (palm cockatoo) and the Cacatuini with three genera: {| class="wikitable" |- ! Tribe !! Image !! Genus !! Living species |- ! rowspan="1" style="text-align:center;"|Microglossini |175px||Probosciger || palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus) |- ! rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" |Cacatuini |175px||Callocephalon || gang-gang cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum) |- |175px||Eolophus || Galah (Eolophus roseicapilla) |- |175px||Cacatua || Subgenus Cacatua - true white cockatoos Yellow-crested (or lesser sulp