| Blue-eyed cockatoo | |
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| At Walsrode Bird Park, Germany | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Cacatuidae |
| Genus: | Cacatua |
| Subgenus: | Cacatua |
| Species: | C. ophthalmica
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| Binomial name | |
| Cacatua ophthalmica Sclater, PL, 1864
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| The Distribution of the blue-eyed cockatoo | |
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.
- ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Cacatua ophthalmica". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22728429A132032417. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22728429A132032417.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.