The coloured tail panel is barred black in juvenile birds, with the extent of barring decreasing with age. Females are dark brown with some yellow markings on. Males are black with dark brown head and red band on the outer tail feathers. Somewhere on Australia’s Kangaroo Island, a fledgling glossy black-cockatoo with identity number 0601 is laying down a new chapter in a remarkable survival story. Males have a prominent red tail panel, while that of females is yellow to orange-red. Immature birds look like the hen except for some red in the head feathers in young males Click to continue> Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus lathami) The Glossy Black-Cockatoo is a fairly small black cockatoo. “A juvenile from the second group made a beeline to the female in the first group and attempted to steal the gumnut she was eating. The South-eastern Glossy Black-Cockatoo is a small brown-black cockatoo with a massive, bulbous bill and a short crest. All of a sudden another family group flew in, calling to announce their arrival,” Erika says. “I was watching a family group of cockatoos feeding in a marri, happily chomping away on the large gumnuts. Erika’s favourite is her ‘Nut Theft’ story. Over her studies, Erika has seen some of their complex social behaviours play out. extent of barring diminishing with the age of the birds (Glossy Black Conservancy 2010). “Growing up near Canberra we would have yellow-tails visit our pine trees a few times a year and I’d run outside as soon as I heard them coming,” she says.Įrika now lives in Perth where much of her studies have focused on the forest red-tailed black cockatoo species ( Calyptorhynchus banksii naso ) in south-western WA, many of which have taken up residency in metropolitan areas. However, the edges are tipped with grey or white. Their feathers are mostly black or very dark brown.
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Black cockatoo expert Erika Roper from the University of Western Australia has been working with these birds for four years, but has had a lifetime affinity with them. Also called the long-billed black cockatoo, Baudin’s black cockatoos are known for their distinctive full body of dark feathers.
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