Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Where to see

Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

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Blue Mountains National Park leads · 15 parks ranked by real sighting rates

Parks Ranked

Share of wildlife watchers reporting a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo during a day in the park, from citizen-science data (GBIF)

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1 Blue Mountains National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~80%
2 Royal National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~80%
3 Grampians National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~70%
4 Great Otway National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~70%
5 Kakadu National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~60%
6 Nitmiluk National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~60%
7 Hattah-Kulkyne National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~60%
8 Litchfield National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~50%
9 Daintree National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~50%
10 Springbrook National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~40%
11 Raja Ampat 🇮🇩 Indonesia
~40%
12 Kosciuszko National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~40%
13 Lamington National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~30%
14 Wilsons Promontory National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~20%
15 Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park 🇦🇺 Australia
~20%

Before you go

Which is the best park to see a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo?

Blue Mountains National Park

In Blue Mountains National Park, Australia, about 80% of wildlife watchers report a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo sighting on a given day, the highest of the 15 parks where we can rate it, from GBIF citizen-science data.

Where else can you see a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo?

Royal National Park and more

After Blue Mountains National Park, the next-best odds of seeing a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo are in Royal National Park (Australia, about 80%), Grampians National Park (Australia, about 70%) and Great Otway National Park (Australia, about 70%). Outside Oceania, the best option is Raja Ampat in Southeast Asia (about 40%).

When is the best time to see a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo?

It depends on the park

In the top parks, the best months are March and June–January in Blue Mountains National Park (about 80%), September and October in Royal National Park (about 90%) and February, August–September and November in Grampians National Park (about 80%), as the share of wildlife watchers who report a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo on a given day. Each park's Sulphur-crested Cockatoo page has the full month-by-month chart.