Critically Endangered
Baudin's Black Cockatoo
Zanda baudinii
Baudin's Black Cockatoo is a parrot in the family Cacatuidae (order Psittaciformes) — Zanda baudinii, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Australia.
Appearance
It is mostly dark-grey with narrow vague light-grey scalloping, that is produced by narrow pale-grey margins at the tip of dark-grey feathers. It has a crest of short feathers on its head, and it has whitish patches of feathers that cover its ears. Its lateral tail feathers are white with black tips, and the central tail feathers are all black.
Baudin's black cockatoo is about 56 cm (22 in) long.
Range and habitat
The Baudin's black cockatoo is one of two species of white-tailed black cockatoo endemic to south-western Australia that were only separated taxonomically in 1948. It is closely associated with moist, heavily forested areas dominated by marri Corymbia calophylla and is threatened by habitat destruction. Baudin's black cockatoo, also known as Baudin's cockatoo or the long-billed black cockatoo, is a genus Zanda found in southwest Australia.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
The range of threats to the declining population, estimated to be between ten and fifteen thousand remaining individuals, has been since 2021 listed with the conservation status of Critically Endangered by IUCN. The bird is part of an annual census, the Great Cocky Count, that has been held every year since 2009 to track the population change of Baudin's and other black cockatoos.
Baudin's Black Cockatoo is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Baudin's Black Cockatoo, Wikidata item Q28107844. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
