Understanding Cockatoo Parrots on the market in Australia course: Aves (Birds) get: Psittaciformes loved ones: Cacatuidae Subfamily: Calyptorhynchin Subfamily: Cacatuinae Genera: 5 Species: twenty existence SPAN (Cockatoo Parrots) around sixty yrs or longer, based upon the species. Some cockatoos in specialist care have lived over a century!