Palm cockatoo:
Six Palm cockatoos (Probosciger aterrimus) birds– were rescued from Assam’s Cachar district by the police.
- Palm cockatoo is also known as the goliath cockatoo or great black cockatoo, is a large smoky-grey or black parrot of the cockatoo family.
- It has a very large black beak and prominent red cheek patches.
- It is native to New Guinea, Aru Islands, and Cape York Peninsula.
- They occur in rainforests, such as gallery forests, forest edges, eucalypt and paperbark woodlands, monsoon woodlands, dense savannas and partly cleared areas.
- They choose big trees for roosting and nesting.
- It is under threat by habitat loss through logging and seasonal fires, which each year destroy their nest trees in significant numbers.
- Conservation status
- IUCN: Least Concern
