ML201991231 IBC 1572909
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- Behaviors
- Foraging or eating
Media notes
A male Carnaby’s Cockatoo eating a woody Peppermint fruit, dropping it then preening. The Short-billed or Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo (Zanda or Calyptorhynchus latirostris) is a very large dull black cockatoo (around 50-60 centimetres long) with white ear patches and tail feather panels. Carnaby’s Black-Cockatoo is restricted to south-western Australia and is classified as endangered. Males have a black bill and a pinkish eye-ring; females have a bone-coloured bill and a grey eye-ring with broader pale margins to their breast feathers. These cockatoos have enormously strong bills that are adapted to cracking open the hard, woody fruits of plants native to south-western Australia to extract the seeds. They move on to the coastal plain near Perth in the southern autumn, and many congregate in large noisy flocks in Yanchep National Park. Their haunting call is one of my all-time favourites. This clip shows a male Carnaby’s Cockatoos perching in a Western Australian Peppermint Tree (Agonis flexuosa), eating Peppermint fruit, dropping it to look around and then preening. Elevation: 28 m. Date added to IBC: March 23, 2019.
Observation details
IBC scientific name: Zanda latirostris.
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- Original file size
- 91.13 MB