Tanimbar Corella

Cacatua goffiniana Roselaar & Michels, 2004

30–33 cmLength275 gWeight

This small white parrot has a hint of salmon-pink on the face and an inconspicuous crest.

Busiest months: January and October–November · Most records: Singapore, China, Thailand

Looks like Solomons Corella

Near Threatened

How to identify

Field marks

White overall, with salmon-pink facial feathers
Crest inconspicuous
Bare skin around the eye pale blue, almost white
Bill grayish-white, short and blunt; legs and feet gray

Voice

Grating, single-syllable shrieks, also nasal trilling calls.

Similar species

Solomons Corella

Solomons Corella lacks pink cheek feathers.

Where and when it's recorded

Tanimbar Corella has been recorded at 78 of the 8,171 birding hotspots we track, in 4 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

Singapore Botanic GardensSingapore398 records
Changi Village / Changi Pt Ferry TerminalSingapore303 records
Pasir Ris ParkSingapore268 records

More places

Sentosa IslandSingapore188 records
Taipei – Taipei Botanical GardenTaiwan (China)117 records
Changi Beach ParkSingapore117 records
Bukit Brown CemeterySingapore113 records
Goldhill Ave / Malcolm Road: forest patchSingapore104 records
Jurong Lake GardensSingapore104 records
Pulau UbinSingapore89 records

Countries and regions with the most records

Singapore China Thailand Philippines

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The Tanimbar corella (Cacatua goffiniana), also known as Goffin's cockatoo or Tanimbar cockatoo, is a species of cockatoo endemic to forests of Yamdena, Larat, and Selaru, all islands in the Tanimbar Islands archipelago in Indonesia. It has been introduced to the Kai Islands, Indonesia; Puerto Rico; and Singapore. This species was only formally described in 2004, after it was discovered that the previous formal descriptions pertained to individuals of a different cockatoo species, Ducorps' or Solomons cockatoo (Cacatua ducorpsii).

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