Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos

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The Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo is a large cockatoo. It is easily identified by its mostly black plumage, with most body feathers edged with yellow, not visible at a distance. It has a yellow cheek patch and yellow panels on the tail. The female has a larger yellow cheek patch, pale grey eye-ring (pink in males), white upper bill (grey-black in males) and black marks in the yellow tail panels. Young birds resemble the adult female, but young males have a smaller cheek patch.

Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos were once content to feed on the seeds of native shrubs and trees, especially banksias, hakeas and casuarinas, as well as extracting the insect larvae that bore into the branches of wattles. I am lucky to have tese birds in our area for the last few weeks.

After a recnt camera and lens purchase, I have been able to capture these unique birds in the wild in the northern rivers of NSW. A couple of short Av's showing them feeding in their natural habitat.

 

 

Ciao

Mark

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Australia has some beautiful birds, closest we came to finding those guys were finding  Baudin's black cockatoo in Perth

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3 hours ago, JRR said:

Australia has some beautiful birds, closest we came to finding those guys were finding  Baudin's black cockatoo in Perth

Yes there are quite a few variiies of cockatoo spread across the conutry native to different part.

We do not see them around here, only when there is food for them so they are very migratory along the east coast.

Thanks for watching.

Mark