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Little Corella

Cacatua sanguinea · Family Psittacidae

Cacatua sanguinea

Family Psittacidae

Order
Psittaciformes
Family
Psittacidae
GBIF occurrence records
509,234
Countries and territories with records
15
Little Corella
Charles J. Sharp · Little corella (Cacatua sanguinea gymnopis) Blanchetown.jpg · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
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About this species

This species has 509,234 occurrence records from 15 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Australia accounts for 99.9% of the records; no other country or territory reaches 1%. In Australia, this species accounts for 0.47% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Cacatua sanguinea combines the genus name Cacatua with the species epithet sanguinea. The Warbla app catalog lists 12 species of the genus Cacatua; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Cacatua galerita, Cacatua tenuirostris and Cacatua leadbeateri.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 324 species of the family Psittacidae. This species ranks 9th among them; the family’s most-recorded species is Psittacula krameri. Its record count is 7.7 times the family average (66,299). The family Psittacidae belongs to the order Psittaciformes, which has 337 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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