yellow-tailed black-cockatoo

Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo

Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo

Yellow tailed black Cockatoo

Male on the right.

With smoke still thick in the air from recent Victorian bush fires a flock of 9 cockatoos arrived in my garden. A reminder of why we live on a block surrounded by trees in one of the worlds most bushfire threatened regions. Male on the left.

A male Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo is seen eating the hard,knobbly seeds of a native Hakea sp. bush.This with an average length of 55-65 cms,is the largest of Australia's Calyptorhynchus Cocka- toos and is only rivaled in size by the Palm Cockatoo,found in PNG and a small area of the Cape York...

Male bird - red eye-ring and dark beak 1/800s, f/8, IS0200

Yesterday I commented on one of Nora's posts of these birds and asked her to send them North. This morning while exploring a national park I came across a flock of around 50 of these. These two were resting amongst the paperbarks in low light, the rest were feeding on the Banksias and harder to...

This pair of cockatoos were ripping borers from the Casuarina branches. A borer hole is visible just to the left of his head. The female is visible as a silhouette in the top-right.