Yellow-tailed black cockatoo (calyptorhynchus funerious)
Large black cockatoo (60-70cm) with yellow tail panels, yellow ear patch.
Male: eye ring pink, bill dark grey
Female: eye ring pink, bill whitish, yellowish edges to breast feathers
Flies in small flocks with slow, measured wingbeats.
Voice: plaintive 'pleee-erk'.
Nests in hollow in tree branch, 1 - 2 eggs.
Range: common resident and nomad in woodland and forest in south-eastern Australia from Rockhampton, Qld to Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, also Tasmania.
Photo taken in the Sunny Corner State forest, NSW.
Fuji Finepix S5600; 1/400; 5.6; iso 400
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