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Also known as the goliath  cockatoo or great black cockato., is a large, smoky -grey / black parrot of the cockatoo family native to new guinea, the aru islands and the cape York peninsula in queensland, australia. It has a crest of long feather atop it's head, with a very large and strong, sharply -hooked black beak (with which it can easily open nuts and seeds), and prominent bright - red check patches. 

The palm cockatoo was formally described in 1788 by naturalist johann friedrich gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of carl linnaeus s system natural, in which he classified the bird  with other parrots in the  genus psittacus. gmelian based his description on the black cockatoo that had been described and illustrated in 1764 by english naturalist George

Edwards. Joan Gideon loten had provided edwards with a drawing of the birds by the Sri Lankan artist Pieter Cornelis de Bevere ;the original drawing by de bere is in the collection of the natural history museum ,London .

the palm cockatoo is ,now the only species within the genus probosciger that was introduced by Heinrich Kuhl in 1820. the generic name combines the Latin proboscis with -ger (meaning carrying) the specific  epithet aterrimus is modern latin, meaning very black . the accepted type locality is Aru islands .rather then northern Australia .

the palm cockatoo is a  member of the white  cockatoo  subfamily cacatuinae. earlier ,limited genetic studies found it to be the earliest offshoot from ancestors of what have  become the cockatoo family .

palm cockatoo was designated the official common name  for-the  species by international ornithological committee(IOC) .the bird was also referred to as the goliath Aratoo in woods natural history (1862) .it is sometimes given the  misnomer black macaw in aviculture, despite the  fact that  Macakatoo ( other than both birds belonging to the palm cockatoo)

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the palm cockatoo is 55 to 60 cm  (22 to 24) in length and weights 910-1200g ) (2.01- 2.65lb) .it may be the largest cockatoo species and largest parrot in Australia ,although large races of yellow-tailed black cockatoo s and sulphur- crested cockatoos broadly overlap in size .it is a distinctive bird with a large crest and has one of the largest bills of any parrot only the hyacinth macaws is large .this powerful bill enables palm cockatoos not only to eat very hard nuts and  seeds, but also enable s males to break off thick (about 1 in (2.5 cm ) Strick from live trees to use  for a drumming display .the male has a  larger beak then  the female .the beak is unusual, as the lower and  upper  mandibles do not meet  for  much of its  length, allowing the  tongue  to  hold  a  nut  against  the top mandible while the  lower  mandible works to open it . the palm cockatoo also has  a distinctive red cheek patch that changes colour when the  bird is alarmed or excited.

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