Blue-eyed Cockatoo
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Cockatoos

Blue-eyed Cockatoo

Cacatua ophthalmica

Family
Cockatoos (Cacatuidae)
Order
Psittaciformes

Overview

The blue-eyed cockatoo (Cacatua ophthalmica) is a large, mainly white cockatoo about 50 cm (20 in) long with a mobile crest, a black beak, and a light blue rim of featherless skin around each eye that gives this species its name.
Like all cockatoos and many parrots, the blue-eyed cockatoo can use one of its zygodactyl feet to hold objects and to bring food to its beak whilst standing on the other foot. Among bird species as a whole, this is relatively unusual.

Summary from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Range and habitat

New Ireland and New Britain (eastern Bismarck Archipelago).

Range description: AviList Global Avian Checklist.

Continents

Sources and further reading

Last updated September 29, 2026.