- Cacatua pastinator
Identification
45cm.
- White with orange/red lores
- Bases of feathers on head and mantle down to flanks washed with pink/orange.
- Grey/blue bare eye ring, more extensively beneath the eye.
- Eye dark brown.
- Underparts, under wing and undertail are washed pale yellow
- Slender and horn-coloured hooked bill
- Long upper mandible
- Grey legs and feet.
- Sexes similar.
Distribution
Australian endemic only found in Western Australia.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are two subspecies
- C. p. derbyi:
- Western Australia (Dongara to Moora and Quairading)
- C. p. pastinator:
- South-western Western Australia (Lake Muir and Unicup region)
Habitat
Near water courses, grassy woodlands and where seeding grasses are found.
Behaviour
Diet
They feed mainly on the ground; the diet includes cereal grains, grasses and exotic weeds, bulbs and germinating cereals, insects and their larvae.
Breeding
The nest is in a hole in tree, mainly in native Eucalyptus, lined with woodchips. 2 - 3 eggs are laid and are incubated for 22 to 26 days, by both parents. The young are cared for by both parents, and fledge at about 8 weeks.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2021) Western Corella. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 29 April 2021 from https://www.birdforum.net/wiki/Western_Corella
