Tanimbar corella
Goffin's cockatoo latin
Goffin's corella
cacatua goffiniana latin

Tool use behaviour has been observed in the Tanimbar Corella in captivity.

It is roughly the size and shape of the Tanimbar Corella, but is easily distinguished by the red feathers around the vent.

Tanimbar Corella chicks make a repetitive soft howling/screeching noise (producer calls) when they are hungry.

Outside Australia, the Tanimbar Corella is a pest on Yamdena Island where it raids maize crops.

Like all members of the Cacatuidae family, the Tanimbar Corella is crested, meaning it has a collection of feathers on its head that it can raise or lower.

Due to ongoing habitat loss on Tanimbar, limited range and illegal hunting, the Tanimbar Corella is evaluated as Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Just by opening the cage door, a Tanimbar Corella's attention can be drawn to the latch on its cage and it can learn by trial and error how to open the latch with its beak and escape the cage in seconds.

A later experiment also conducted at the Vienna Goffin Lab by Prof. Aursperg and her team broadly adapted the Stanford marshmallow experiment for the Tanimbar Corella, to investigate whether the birds were capable of self-control and of anticipating a delayed gain.

In aviculture the parrot is widely known as the Goffin's Cockatoo.