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Kōrero: Introduced land birds

Distribution of sulphur-crested cockatoos, galahs and eastern rosellas

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  • Eastern rosella

  • Galah

  • Sulphur-crested cockatoo

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The galah and sulphur-crested cockatoo can only be found in isolated parts of New Zealand, but in the North Island eastern rosellas are now quite widespread around the Wellington region and north of Taupō. In the South Island there is one isolated population close to the Otago Peninsula, where they were released about 1910.

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Christina Troup, Introduced land birds – Cockatoos and rosellas, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/interactive/17144/distribution-of-sulphur-crested-cockatoos-galahs-and-eastern-rosellas (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Christina Troup, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.

Comments

simon dagger
08 November 2017
About 20 Km north east of Hunterville on our property we have 4 Eastern Rosella that have been around for last five years . Now yesterday Two Sulphur crested Cockatoo came and visited for the afternoon ,scared the hell out of the local Magpies , when they came flying in.
Evan Minton
22 March 2016
Last week I spotted a group of 5 large Sulphur Crested Cockatoo's on a farm in Waiuku.
Lisa Crandall
27 January 2016
Yesterday we saw a galah in Te Kowhai (just North West of HAMILTON).
Caroline
10 September 2012
We have a well established colony of about 30+ sulphur crested cockatoos, here in Gladstone.
Jon
29 June 2012
Sorry, forgot to say, we live in Kerikeri, Bay of Islands
Jon
29 June 2012
Today (29th June 2012) saw a wild pair of sulphur crested cockatoo flying around our property. Looked very wild and not like an escaped pair.
Luis
13 October 2011
Hi.How many Wild Rainbow Lorikeets population are in New Zealand. And how many wild population of Sulphur-Crested Cockatoo in Auckland?