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There are five species of black cockatoos in Australia – red-tailed, glossy, yellow-tailed, Carnaby’s and Baudin’s black cockatoo.Cockatoos do have unique features that parrots don’t have such as a gall bladder and a moveable crest on top of their heads. Cockatoos are larger than parrots and can never be green or blue in colour as they lack a special feather composition giving parrots the ability to be blue or green. Cockatoos occur naturally only in Australia and on some nearby islands. Black cockatoos are endemic to Australia, therefore found nowhere else in the world.