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Animals & Nature. Cockatoos (Cacatuidae) are a group of parrots that include cockatiels, cockatoos and corellas. There are a total of 21 species in the cockatoo family, most of which inhabit Australia, the Philippines, several eastern Indonesian islands. Cockatoos are notable for their elaborate crest plumage.
Eleven of the 21 species of cockatoo live only in Australia. Seven species occur only in the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.Three species occur in both New Guinea and Australia.he average lifespan of a cockatoo is 50-60 years old but there have been 2 cockatoos that have lived more then 100 years; both of them died in the 1990s.