It’s pale pink colour, and red, yellow and white crest, also help you tell it apart from the Galah. The gentle splashes of pastel pink across the front of its body set it apart from its Sulphur Crested Cockatoo brothers and sisters. The Pink Cockatoo is admired far and wide in Australia for its unique beauty. The Pink Cockatoo is hard to miss, with its distinctive red and white headdress. Pink Cockatoos usually return to the same nesting area every year to start their family again. They also take turns preening and feeding their new baby. Pink Cockatoos share the parenting duties equally. Every mating season, from July to January, they raise 2-3 babies together. The Pink Cockatoo is known by a variety of names, most commonly as Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo, as well as Leadbeater’s Cockatoo, Desert Cockatoo, Cocklerina, Chockalott and Wee Juggler. You’ll see them living in inland arid or semi-arid areas, such as open woodland, timbered grasslands, as well as mulga, mallee, callitris and casuarina country. They move around to wherever there is abundant food and water. Pink Cockatoos don’t usually stick to one area. There are Pink Cockatoos living in south west Queensland, central NSW, and southern and northern inland Western Australia. This magnificent colour is displayed most clearly when Pink Cockatoos are flying or landing, when their wings are fully spread out. Their pink patches are found on their face and neck, breast and under their wings. Pink Cockatoos are usually about 35-40 cm long, which is fairly small for a cockatoo. They are hard to miss, with their pink colouring and distinctive red and white headdress. Pink Cockatoos ( Lophochroa leadbeateri) are most commonly known as Major Mitchell’s Cockatoo.
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