New genetic research from the University of Hong Kong has confirmed that two cockatoos believed to be the same species are actually two distinct species. Cockatoos are a chatty bird found in the wild ...

The salmon-crested cockatoo is now listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Native to islands in eastern Indonesia, the parrot is at risk due to logging in its lowland ...

WA’s endangered black cockatoo numbers may have fallen 35 per cent in just one year. WESTERN AUSTRALIA’S iconic, endangered black cockatoos are being decimated by land clearing, logging and human ...

Above the teeming shopping streets of Hong Kong’s Causeway Bay, a fight to save one of the world’s most endangered species is unfolding high in the branches of a decades-old cotton tree. Nestled among ...

Sydney, Australia, June 10 (efe_epa).Sydney, Australia, June 10 (efe_epa). — The Cape York palm cockatoo faces the threat of losing its habitat in Cape York, a vast and remote area in north eastern ...

When recognising a new species or subspecies, a “holotype” (i.e., the specimen from which the subspecies or species was first described) is required. The holotype for Calyptorhynchus banksii ...