A male Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) struggles against the wind balancing atop a casurina.
Yeppoon, Queensland
A female Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) feeding on a Tropical Almond.
Yeppoon, Queensland
A male Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus banksii) resting in the shade of a Tropical Almond.
Yeppoon, Queensland
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos (Zanda funerea), or as we like to call them, the dinosaurs of the sky. These birds have an unmistakable and mournful call that echoes from kilometers away.
Yellow tails face a number of threats including dwindling nesting hollows and the loss of native trees and shrubs that are important food sources.. Wildfire, land clearing, and climate change threaten the stability of food resources into the future.
A pair of preening Sulfur-crested Cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) outside of a nest hollow.
Lugarno, Sydney, Australia
A pair of Sulphur-crested Cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) preening outsidSulphur-crested Cockatoos (Cacatua galerita) lay a clutch of 1-3 eggs in the hollow of a large tree.
Carss Bush Park, Sydney, Australia
Both parents incubate the eggs and care for the young Cockatoo, and once they leave the hollow fledglings join the flock, remaining with their parents.
Lime Kiln Bay, Sydney, Australia
A pair of Galahs (Cacatua roseicapilla)with the perfect nest hollow. Once a pair finds a suitable hollow, they will defend it against other birds, often returning to the same site each breeding season.
Mulligans Flat Nature Reserve, Canberra
A pair Gang-gang Cockatoos (Callocephalon fimbriatum) drinking from a stream. Like most Cockatoo species, Gang-gangs will come down to water sources to drink before dusk.
Canberra, Australia
A female Gang-gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum) feeding. Gang-gangs mainly eat eucalyptus gum nuts and flowers, acacia pods, pine and cypress seeds, and the berries of introduced hawthorns.
Canberra, Australia
Did you know that Long-billed Corellas (Cacatua tenuirostris) are also part of the Cockatoo family? They have an extremely long and pointed upper mandible that they use to dig and forage for roots and seeds
Lime Kiln Bay, Sydney, Australia
