![]() The contact call is a drawn-out “kee-ow”. RF 2PDMT56 The Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo is mostly glossy black and has an erectile crest which forms an obvious helmet when raised and pushed forward. RF 2BWYP94 An adult female Glossy Black Cockatoo in the wild in eastern Australia. Young birds resemble the adult female, but young males have a smaller cheek patch. RM 2H70MG4 Glossy black cockatoo, Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. 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. It has a yellow cheek patch and yellow panels on the tail. It is easily identified by its mostly black plumage, with most body feathers edged with yellow, not visible at a distance. Although the population numbers only about 400, this is a substantial increase from an estimated 115150 in the 1980s. The Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo is a large cockatoo. The situation for the endangered Kangaroo Island glossy black-cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami halmaturinus) is different. ![]() Research featured in the ‘ State of Australia’s Birds 2015‘ headline and regional reports indicates a significant decline for the Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (and some other parrot species) in the East Coast. The population on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is now reliant on the seeds of the Aleppo Pine, a noxious weed, as its preferred habitat, Sugar Gum woodlands, has become extensively fragmented. ![]() Now, after the establishment of extensive plantations of exotic Monterey Pines, the cockatoos may feed more often by tearing open pine cones to extract the seeds. 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. ![]()
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