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The '''palm cockatoo''' (''Probosciger aterrimus''), also known as the '''goliath cockatoo''' or '''great black cockatoo''', is a large smoky-grey or black [[Psittaciformes|parrot]] of the [[cockatoo]] family native to [[New Guinea]], [[Aru Islands Regency|Aru Islands]], and [[Cape York Peninsula]].<ref name=ioc/> It has a very large black beak and prominent red cheek patches.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v2GYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA122 |page=122 |title=Birds of New Guinea: Second Edition |author1=Thane K. Pratt |author2=Bruce M. Beehler |year=2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9780691095639 }}</ref>
The '''palm cockatoo''' (''Probosciger aterrimus''), also known as the '''goliath cockatoo''' or '''great black cockatoo''', is a large, smoky-grey/black [[Psittaciformes|parrot]] of the [[cockatoo]] family native to [[New Guinea]], the [[Aru Islands Regency|Aru Islands]] and the [[Cape York Peninsula]] in [[Queensland]], [[Australia]].<ref name=ioc/><ref>{{Cite web |title=Species profile—Probosciger aterrimus macgillivrayi (palm cockatoo) |url=https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=1175 |access-date=2024-04-04 |website=Species information |publisher=Queensland Government}}</ref> It has a crest of long feathers atop its head, with a very large and strong, sharply-hooked black beak (with which it can easily open nuts and seeds), and prominent bright-red cheek patches.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v2GYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA122 |page=122 |title=Birds of New Guinea: Second Edition |author1=Thane K. Pratt |author2=Bruce M. Beehler |year=2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=9780691095639 }}</ref>


==Taxonomy==
==Taxonomy==
The palm cockatoo was [[Species description|formally described]] in 1788 by the German naturalist [[Johann Friedrich Gmelin]] in his revised and expanded edition of [[Carl Linnaeus]]'s ''[[Systema Naturae]]''. He placed it with the parrots in the [[genus]] ''[[Psittacus]]'' and coined the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Psittacus aterrimus''.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Gmelin | first=Johann Friedrich | author-link=Johann Friedrich Gmelin| year=1788 | title=Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | edition=13th | volume=1, Part 1 | language=Latin | location=Lipsiae [Leipzig] | publisher=Georg. Emanuel. Beer | page=330 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2896930 }}</ref> Gmelin based his description on the "black cockatoo" that had been described and illustrated in 1764 by the English naturalist [[George Edwards (naturalist)|George Edwards]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Edwards | first=George | year=1764 | title=Gleanings of Natural History, Exhibiting Figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, Plants &c | volume=3 | location=London | publisher=Printed for the author | page=229; Plate 316 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50176545 }}</ref> [[Joan Gideon Loten]] had provided Edwards with a drawing of the bird by the Sri Lankan artist Pieter Cornelis de Bevere.<ref>{{ cite journal | last1=Ferguson | first1=Donald | last2=Anthonisz | first2=R.G. | date=1907 | title=Joan Gideon Loten, F.R.S., the naturalist Governor of Ceylon (1752-57), and the Ceylonese artist de Bevere | journal=Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society | volume=19 | issue=58 | pages=217–271 | jstor=45385020 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44003470 }}</ref> The original drawing by de Bere is in the collection of the [[Natural History Museum, London]].<ref>{{ cite web | title= Collection of 154 coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects and Plants, painted from the life for J. G. Loten, Dutch Governor of Ceylon, 1752-1757 / by P. C.de Bevere, in Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago, 1754-1757 | publisher=Natural History Museum, London | url=https://nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44NHM_INST/1afpmgq/alma9912766802081 | access-date=20 February 2023}}</ref> The palm cockatoo is now the only species placed in the genus ''Probosciger'' that was introduced by [[Heinrich Kuhl]] in 1820.<ref>{{ cite journal | last=Kuhl | first=Heinrich | author-link=Heinrich Kuhl | date=1820 | title=Conspectus Psittacorum | language=Latin | journal=Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Academie der Naturforscher | volume=10 | pages=1–104 [12] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37020430 }}</ref><ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=January 2023 | title=Parrots, cockatoos | work=IOC World Bird List Version 13.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/parrots/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=20 February 2023 }}</ref> The genus name combines the [[Latin]] ''proboscis'' meaning "snout" with ''-ger'' meaning "carrying". The [[specific epithet]] ''aterrimus'' is [[Neo-Latin|Modern Latin]] meaning "very black".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages=[https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n317/mode/1up 317], [https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n58/mode/1up 58]}}</ref> The accepted [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] is the [[Aru Islands Regency|Aru Islands]],<ref>{{ cite book | last=Schodde | first=Richard | date=1997 | title=Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae) in Zoological Catalogue of Australia | volume=37, Part 2 | location=Collingwood, Victoria, Australia | publisher=Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) | isbn=0-643-06037-5 | pages=73–74 }}<!--https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lK_tb2TICq8C&pg=PA73 --></ref><ref name=hbw/> rather than "northern Australia".<ref>{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1937 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=3 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=171 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14477886 }}</ref>
The palm cockatoo was [[Species description|formally described]] in [[1788]] by naturalist [[Johann Friedrich Gmelin]] in his revised and expanded edition of [[Carl Linnaeus]]'s ''[[Systema Naturae]]'', in which he classified the bird with other parrots in the [[genus]] ''[[Psittacus]]'' and coined the [[binomial nomenclature|binomial name]] ''Psittacus aterrimus''.<ref>{{ cite book | last=Gmelin | first=Johann Friedrich | author-link=Johann Friedrich Gmelin| year=1788 | title=Systema naturae per regna tria naturae : secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis | edition=13th | volume=1, Part 1 | language=Latin | location=Lipsiae [Leipzig] | publisher=Georg. Emanuel. Beer | page=330 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2896930 }}</ref> Gmelin based his description on the "black cockatoo" that had been described and illustrated in [[1764]] by English naturalist [[George Edwards (naturalist)|George Edwards]].<ref>{{ cite book | last=Edwards | first=George | year=1764 | title=Gleanings of Natural History, Exhibiting Figures of Quadrupeds, Birds, Insects, Plants &c | volume=3 | location=London | publisher=Printed for the author | page=229; Plate 316 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50176545 }}</ref> [[Joan Gideon Loten]] had provided Edwards with a drawing of the bird by the [[Sri Lanka|Sri Lankan]] artist Pieter Cornelis de Bevere;<ref>{{ cite journal | last1=Ferguson | first1=Donald | last2=Anthonisz | first2=R.G. | date=1907 | title=Joan Gideon Loten, F.R.S., the naturalist Governor of Ceylon (1752-57), and the Ceylonese artist de Bevere | journal=Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society | volume=19 | issue=58 | pages=217–271 | jstor=45385020 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44003470 }}</ref> the original drawing by de Bere is in the collection of the [[Natural History Museum, London]].<ref>{{ cite web | title= Collection of 154 coloured drawings of Birds, Mammals, Insects and Plants, painted from the life for J. G. Loten, Dutch Governor of Ceylon, 1752-1757 / by P. C.de Bevere, in Ceylon and the Malay Archipelago, 1754-1757 | publisher=Natural History Museum, London | url=https://nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/44NHM_INST/1afpmgq/alma9912766802081 | access-date=20 February 2023}}</ref>


The palm cockatoo is, now, the only species within the genus ''Probosciger'' that was introduced by [[Heinrich Kuhl]] in [[1820]].<ref>{{cite journal | last=Kuhl | first=Heinrich | author-link=Heinrich Kuhl | date=1820 | title=Conspectus Psittacorum | language=Latin | journal=Verhandlungen der Kaiserlichen Leopoldinisch-Carolinische Academie der Naturforscher | volume=10 | pages=1–104 [12] | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37020430 }}</ref><ref name="ioc">{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=January 2023 | title=Parrots, cockatoos | work=IOC World Bird List Version 13.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/parrots/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=20 February 2023 }}</ref> The [[Genus|generic name]] combines the [[Latin]] ''[[proboscis]]'' (meaning "snout") with ''-ger'' (meaning "carrying"); the [[specific epithet]] ''aterrimus'' is [[Neo-Latin|Modern Latin]], meaning "very black".<ref>{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages=[https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n317/mode/1up 317], [https://archive.org/stream/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling#page/n58/mode/1up 58]}}</ref> The accepted [[type locality (biology)|type locality]] is Aru Islands,<ref>{{cite book | last=Schodde | first=Richard | date=1997 | title=Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae) in Zoological Catalogue of Australia | volume=37, Part 2 | location=Collingwood, Victoria, Australia | publisher=Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) | isbn=0-643-06037-5 | pages=73–74 }}<!--https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lK_tb2TICq8C&pg=PA73 --></ref><ref name="hbw" /> rather than "northern Australia".<ref>{{cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1937 | title=Check-List of Birds of the World | volume=3 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=171 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14477886 }}</ref>
The palm cockatoo is a member of the white cockatoo subfamily Cacatuinae.<ref name="White">{{cite journal|title=The evolutionary history of cockatoos (Aves: Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae)|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|year=2011|volume=59|pages=615–622|author1=Nicole E. White |author2=Matthew J. Phillips |author3=M. Thomas P. Gilbert |author4=Alonzo Alfaro-Núñez |author5=Eske Willerslev |author6=Peter R. Mawson |author7=Peter B.S. Spencer |author8=Michael Bunce |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.011|issue=3|pmid=21419232|url=http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/4397/}}</ref> Earlier limited genetic studies found it to be the earliest offshoot from the ancestors of what have become the cockatoo family.<ref name=BrownToft>{{cite journal |vauthors=Brown DM, Toft CA |year=1999 |title=Molecular systematics and biogeography of the cockatoos (Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae) |journal=[[Auk (journal)|Auk]] |volume=116|issue=1 |pages=141–57|issn=0004-8038 |doi=10.2307/4089461|jstor=4089461 }}</ref> {{Disputed inline|Taxonomics|for=conflict with sources cited above|date=January 2014}}


The palm cockatoo is a member of the [[white cockatoo]] [[subfamily]] [[Cacatuinae]].<ref name="White">{{cite journal|title=The evolutionary history of cockatoos (Aves: Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae)|journal=Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution|year=2011|volume=59|pages=615–622|author1=Nicole E. White |author2=Matthew J. Phillips |author3=M. Thomas P. Gilbert |author4=Alonzo Alfaro-Núñez |author5=Eske Willerslev |author6=Peter R. Mawson |author7=Peter B.S. Spencer |author8=Michael Bunce |doi=10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.011|issue=3|pmid=21419232|bibcode=2011MolPE..59..615W |url=http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/4397/}}</ref> Earlier, limited genetic studies found it to be the earliest offshoot from ancestors of what have become the cockatoo family.<ref name="BrownToft">{{cite journal |vauthors=Brown DM, Toft CA |year=1999 |title=Molecular systematics and biogeography of the cockatoos (Psittaciformes: Cacatuidae) |journal=[[Auk (journal)|Auk]] |volume=116|issue=1 |pages=141–57|issn=0004-8038 |doi=10.2307/4089461|jstor=4089461 }}</ref> {{Disputed inline|Taxonomics|for=conflict with sources cited above|date=January 2014}}
"Palm cockatoo" has been designated the official name by the [[International Ornithological Committee]] (IOC).<ref name=ioc/> The species was named the "Goliath Aratoo" in Wood's Natural History (1862). It is also sometimes given the misnomer "black macaw" in aviculture the [[macaw]]s are unrelated New World parrots. Confusingly, this name was also used by early naturalists and Brazilian natives to refer to the dark blue [[hyacinth macaw]].{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}

"Palm cockatoo" was designated the official common name for the species by the [[International Ornithological Committee]] (IOC).<ref name="ioc" /> The bird was also referred to as the "Goliath aratoo" in ''Wood's Natural History'' ([[1862]]). It is sometimes given the misnomer "black [[macaw]]" in [[aviculture]], despite the fact that macaws are [[New World]] parrots and are unrelated to the palm cockatoo (other than both birds belonging to the Psittaciformes [[Order (biology)|order]]). Confusingly, this name was also used by early naturalists as well as Brazilian tribes to refer to the dark blue [[hyacinth macaw]] (''Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus'').{{citation needed|date=April 2016}}


Four [[subspecies]] are recognised.<ref name=ioc/>
Four [[subspecies]] are recognised.<ref name=ioc/>
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==Distribution and habitat==
==Distribution and habitat==
The palm cockatoo is found in rainforests and woodlands of [[New Guinea]] and [[Cape York Peninsula]], [[Queensland]], Australia. It can still be found near [[Sorong]], [[West Papua (province)|West Papua]], Indonesia, where it is sometimes seen in trees along the roads.<ref name="Indonesian Parrot Project">[http://www.indonesian-parrot-project.org/notes16.html Indonesian Parrot Project] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329084145/http://www.indonesian-parrot-project.org/notes16.html |date=29 March 2010 }}</ref>
The palm cockatoo is found in rainforests and woodlands of New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. It can still be found near [[Sorong]], [[West Papua (province)|West Papua]], [[Indonesia]], where it is sometimes seen in trees along the roads.<ref name="Indonesian Parrot Project">[http://www.indonesian-parrot-project.org/notes16.html Indonesian Parrot Project] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100329084145/http://www.indonesian-parrot-project.org/notes16.html |date=29 March 2010 }}</ref>


==Behaviour and ecology==
==Behaviour and ecology==
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===Food and feeding===
===Food and feeding===


The palm cockatoo often feeds during the early hours of the day on a diet that consists mostly of wild growing [[Pandanus spiralis|pandanus palm]] fruit and nuts from the [[Canarium australasicum|kanari tree]]. They have also been seen eating fruit from Darwin stringy bark ''[[Eucalyptus tetradonta]]'' and [[Parinari nonda|nonda tree]], as well as seeds from the [[Planchonia careya|cocky apple tree]], [[Terminalia catappa|beach almond]], and [[Castanospermum|black bean tree]].<ref name="Parrot Tag: Palm Cockatoo"/>
The palm cockatoo often feeds during the early hours of the day, on a diet consisting mostly of wild [[Pandanus spiralis|pandanus palm]] fruits and [[Canarium australasicum|kanari tree]] nuts. They have also been seen eating fruits of [[Eucalyptus tetrodonta|Darwin stringy bark]] and the [[Parinari nonda|nonda tree]], as well as seeds from the [[Planchonia careya|cocky apple tree]], [[Terminalia catappa|beach almond]] and [[Castanospermum|black bean tree]].<ref name="Parrot Tag: Palm Cockatoo"/>


=== Drumming ===
=== Drumming ===
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==Conservation and status==
==Conservation and status==
[[File:Naturalis Biodiversity Center - Natuurkundige Commissie - Art by Bik, ? - Bird species - MMNAT01 AF NNM001000149 001.jpg|thumb|right|Great black cockatoo from New-Guinea, Dutch colonial expedition Natuurkundige Commissie, around 1821–1822]]
[[File:Naturalis Biodiversity Center - Natuurkundige Commissie - Art by Bik, ? - Bird species - MMNAT01 AF NNM001000149 001.jpg|thumb|right|Great black cockatoo from New-Guinea, Dutch colonial expedition Natuurkundige Commissie, around 1821–1822]]
The palm cockatoo is still relatively common in [[Cape York Peninsula|Cape York]], but is threatened there by [[habitat destruction]], particularly due to [[Bauxite mining in Australia|bauxite mining]] around Weipa and altered fire regimens elsewhere. Palm cockatoos are hunted in New Guinea. The palm cockatoo is currently evaluated as Near Threatened on the [[IUCN Red List]] of Threatened Species.<ref name=IUCN/> It is listed on Appendix I of [[CITES]]. In Australia, palm cockatoos were relisted from Near Threatened to Vulnerable on 31 October 2015 ([http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicthreatenedlist.pl?wanted=fauna#birds_vulnerable EPBC Act List of Threatened Fauna]).
The palm cockatoo is still relatively common in Cape York, where it is nonetheless threatened by [[habitat destruction]] (particularly due to [[Bauxite mining in Australia|bauxite mining]] around [[Weipa]]) and altered fire regimens in the region. Palm cockatoos are also hunted traditionally in New Guinea. The species is currently listed as [[Near-threatened species|Near Threatened]] on the [[IUCN Red List]] of Threatened Species.<ref name=iucn/> It is listed on Appendix I of [[CITES]]. In Australia, palm cockatoos were relisted from Near Threatened to [[Vulnerable species|Vulnerable]] on 31 October 2015 ([http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicthreatenedlist.pl?wanted=fauna#birds_vulnerable EPBC Act List of Threatened Fauna]).


==Aviculture==
==Aviculture==

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Palm cockatoo
Palm cockatoo in Lockhart River, Queensland
CITES Appendix I (CITES)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Psittaciformes
Family: Cacatuidae
Genus: Probosciger
Kuhl, 1820
Species:
P. aterrimus
Binomial name
Probosciger aterrimus
(Gmelin, JF, 1788)
Subspecies

P. a. aterrimus [Gmelin 1788]
P. a. goliath [Kuhl 1820]
P. a. macgillivrayi [Mathews 1927]
P. a. stenolophus [van Ort 1911]

Australian palm cockatoo range (in green)

The palm cockatoo (Probosciger aterrimus), also known as the goliath cockatoo or great black cockatoo, is a large, smoky-grey/black parrot of the cockatoo family native to New Guinea, the Aru Islands and the Cape York Peninsula in Queensland, Australia.[3][4] It has a crest of long feathers atop its head, with a very large and strong, sharply-hooked black beak (with which it can easily open nuts and seeds), and prominent bright-red cheek patches.[5]

Taxonomy

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The palm cockatoo was formally described in 1788 by naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae, in which he classified the bird with other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus aterrimus.[6] Gmelin based his description on the "black cockatoo" that had been described and illustrated in 1764 by English naturalist George Edwards.[7] Joan Gideon Loten had provided Edwards with a drawing of the bird by the Sri Lankan artist Pieter Cornelis de Bevere;[8] the original drawing by de Bere is in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London.[9]

The palm cockatoo is, now, the only species within the genus Probosciger that was introduced by Heinrich Kuhl in 1820.[10][3] The generic name combines the Latin proboscis (meaning "snout") with -ger (meaning "carrying"); the specific epithet aterrimus is Modern Latin, meaning "very black".[11] The accepted type locality is Aru Islands,[12][13] rather than "northern Australia".[14]

The palm cockatoo is a member of the white cockatoo subfamily Cacatuinae.[15] Earlier, limited genetic studies found it to be the earliest offshoot from ancestors of what have become the cockatoo family.[16] [disputed (for: conflict with sources cited above)  – discuss]

"Palm cockatoo" was designated the official common name for the species by the International Ornithological Committee (IOC).[3] The bird was also referred to as the "Goliath aratoo" in Wood's Natural History (1862). It is sometimes given the misnomer "black macaw" in aviculture, despite the fact that macaws are New World parrots and are unrelated to the palm cockatoo (other than both birds belonging to the Psittaciformes order). Confusingly, this name was also used by early naturalists as well as Brazilian tribes to refer to the dark blue hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus).[citation needed]

Four subspecies are recognised.[3]

A 2007 genetic study found little support for the above division into subspecies.[17]

Description

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The palm cockatoo is 55 to 60 cm (22 to 24 in) in length and weighs 910–1,200 g (2.01–2.65 lb).[18] It may be the largest cockatoo species and largest parrot in Australia, although large races of yellow-tailed black cockatoos and sulphur-crested cockatoos broadly overlap in size. It is a distinctive bird with a large crest and has one of the largest bills of any parrot (only the hyacinth macaw's is larger). This powerful bill enables palm cockatoos not only to eat very hard nuts and seeds, but also enables males to break off thick (about 1 in (2.5 cm)) sticks from live trees to use for a drumming display.[19] The male has a larger beak than the female.[18] The beak is unusual, as the lower and upper mandibles do not meet for much of its length, allowing the tongue to hold a nut against the top mandible while the lower mandible works to open it. The palm cockatoo also has a distinctive red cheek patch that changes colour when the bird is alarmed or excited.

The races P. a. goliath and P. a. stenolophus are larger than the nominate subspecies. The race stenolophus also has narrower crest feathers.[13]

Vocalisation

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At Jurong Bird Park, Singapore

The vocalizations of palm cockatoos are similar to those of most wild parrots, but they have also been shown to produce a variety of additional syllables in display and exchange with neighbouring individuals. These additional syllables are mainly produced by males and are often combined to form long, complex sequences. In a population in the Iron Range, 30 different syllables were distinguished.[20] The palm cockatoos from the east have different call types from the ones from other areas, due to their long term isolation.[21]

Distribution and habitat

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The palm cockatoo is found in rainforests and woodlands of New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia. It can still be found near Sorong, West Papua, Indonesia, where it is sometimes seen in trees along the roads.[22]

Behaviour and ecology

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It has a unique territorial display where the bird (typically the male) drums with a large (i.e. up to 2.5 cm diameter, 15 cm long) stick or seed pod against a dead bough or tree, creating a loud noise that can be heard up to 100 m away.[23] After drumming, the male occasionally strips the drum tool into small pieces to line the nest.[24] Although this drumming behaviour was discovered over three decades ago (in 1984 by G.A. Wood), the reason why palm cockatoos drum is still a mystery. One reason could be that females can assess the durability of the nesting hollow by the resonance of the drumming. Another possibility could be that males drum to mark their territory against other males.[citation needed] The palm cockatoo is an unusual bird, being an ancient species and one of the few bird species known to use tools.[22]

Flocking

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This species normally does not appear in large numbers. They are not known to flock feed like many of the cockatoo species. Usually only one to six individuals are observed feeding together at one time. As with other large birds, both parents care for young, so seeing a breeding pair is not unusual. If these birds do congregate, it will usually happen in open woodland just after sunrise or along the rainforest edge before returning to individual roosts for the night.[25]

Breeding

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Palm cockatoos only lay one egg every second year and have one of the lowest breeding success rates reported for any species of parrot.[26] Offsetting this is their very long lifespan. A male commenced breeding at 29 in Taronga Zoo in Sydney, and a female at the London Zoo was 40 when she laid her first egg in 1966. Breeding takes place inside tree hollows that look like standing pipes. Fires play an important role in the destruction and creation of nest hollows. Fires allow the colonisation of microorganisms and termites, which enter the tree and start hollowing out the inside. Cyclones are important in the final stage of nest hollow development.

Anecdotal evidence indicates a palm cockatoo reaching 80 or 90 years of age in an Australian zoo,[26] although the oldest confirmed individual was aged 56 in London Zoo in 2000.[27] Although longevity of captive birds is known, the lifespan of palm cockatoos that live in the wild is still unknown.

Food and feeding

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The palm cockatoo often feeds during the early hours of the day, on a diet consisting mostly of wild pandanus palm fruits and kanari tree nuts. They have also been seen eating fruits of Darwin stringy bark and the nonda tree, as well as seeds from the cocky apple tree, beach almond and black bean tree.[25]

Drumming

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A 2023 study by Professor Robert Heinsohn from the Australian National University, has found that palm cockatoos fashion individual musical tools, in the form of wood and seed pods, to drum on trees to mark their territories and attract potential mates. These musical tools are used by the cockatoos to drum out highly personal rhythms and the tools are often highly decorated. [28]

Conservation and status

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Great black cockatoo from New-Guinea, Dutch colonial expedition Natuurkundige Commissie, around 1821–1822

The palm cockatoo is still relatively common in Cape York, where it is nonetheless threatened by habitat destruction (particularly due to bauxite mining around Weipa) and altered fire regimens in the region. Palm cockatoos are also hunted traditionally in New Guinea. The species is currently listed as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[1] It is listed on Appendix I of CITES. In Australia, palm cockatoos were relisted from Near Threatened to Vulnerable on 31 October 2015 (EPBC Act List of Threatened Fauna).

Aviculture

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This species is in high demand for the pet trade due to its unusual appearance. In early captive situations, pet owners would either feed dog kibble or generic bird seed mixture, while zoos would give them "monkey biscuits". As their nutritional needs became more apparent over the years, owners have shifted to specially formulated "manufactured diet" pellets along with a wide variety of treats like peanuts, pecans, Brazil nuts, pine nuts, sunflower seeds, oranges, apples, grapes, pomegranate, bananas, sweet potatoes, carrots, beets, broccoli, and kale. Many zoos still give them monkey biscuits to broaden their diet.[29]

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