Some text fragments are auto parsed from Wikipedia. Each bird must have an official certificate to prove that it was captive-bred and not imported. In the UK their sale is controlled as they are classified as a rare species. Tanimbar corella chicks make a repetitive soft howling/screeching noise when they are hungry. Many new bird owners are not aware of the time and money a cockatoo demands and pet birds are often passed from one owner to the next or relinquished to animal shelters. Their droppings are semi-solid and can be messy. Even very tame birds can bite humans when irritated or even when being excessively playful. They need time out of their cage for one-on-one social contact of at least four hours daily and also to exercise their wings and fly. Caged Tanimbar corellas require a frequent change of toys to play with so they do not become bored. Occasionally, captive birds of this species develop self-destructive behaviours such as feather-plucking, or stereotypy if they do not have an interesting and enriching environment. Handreared Tanimbar corellas tend to demand a lot of attention. Tanimbar corellas can destroy furniture with their beaks and can chew through wires and cause potentially dangerous electrical incidents. 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. Tanimbar corellas learn by watching and copying. They are intelligent and they can be trained and can learn tricks. Like most cockatoos, they enjoy being handled and stroked. They can make good pets, as they are friendly and sociable when properly socialized. They are generally quieter than the "large cockatoos" but can still be quite loud, and they have a sharp screech that some find irritating. Pet birds handreared from hatching can imitate human speech, but generally they are not good talkers. In aviculture the parrot is widely known as the Goffin's cockatoo. The maximum recorded lifespan for a Tanimbar corella is 26 years – though this figure may be a significant under-representation, considering the long-lived nature of many other cockatoo species. They are often confused with the little corella due to their similar appearance. ![]() The beak is pale grey and eye colour ranges from brown to black. The underside of its wing and tail feathers exhibit a yellowish tinge. The deeper parts of the crest feathers and neck feathers are also a salmon color, but the coloration here is hidden by the white color of the more superficial areas of these feathers. Its body is mainly covered with white feathers, with salmon or pink colored feathers between the beak and eyes. ![]() Like all members of the family Cacatuidae, the Tanimbar corella is crested, meaning it has a collection of feathers on its head that it can raise or lower. Tanimbar corellas weigh, on average, about 250 g for females and 300 g for males.
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