Red-tailed Black-cockatoo by Don

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29-Jun-2017

Red-tailed Black-cockatoo

best viewed at original size

These guys eat mainly seed. They can use that bill with surprising delicacy to pick it off the ground. They also feed in trees, using their bill to break into hard woody pods to extract the seed.

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George McCarten		06-Mar-2022 02:06
Amazing to see these in the wild!!

Ton T.		17-Feb-2018 21:26
Most beautiful cockatoo and very expensive in Europe. Smugglers tried to smuggle eggs to Europe V

Torben Jorgensen		08-Nov-2017 12:38
Great capture. Never seen one of these.

Yvonne		12-Oct-2017 10:15
We have some that fly in to strip the seed pods from the acacia, how they know when and where is amazing. Fabulous shot Don! PS..not sure whether ours have that red feather..

Gill Kopy		12-Oct-2017 03:20
The red tail and brush cut gives this bird a 'cocky' character for sure :) V

Nirvan Hope		12-Oct-2017 00:59
Quite the self-assured character - perhaps that's where the word 'cocky' comes from...

Tom Murray		11-Oct-2017 23:39
You're lucky to have great birds like this cockatoo around. Nice shot with the red showing in the tail.

Helen Betts		11-Oct-2017 20:30
Great capture of this almost comical looking cockatoo. Don't think I ever saw one during my years in Australia.

Tom Munson		11-Oct-2017 19:47
This guy looks like he has an attitude. Nice shot.

Jim Coffman		11-Oct-2017 19:30
What a neat looking bird!! Nice image, Don!

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