Glossy Black Cockatoo

Description:

Australian bird of the parrot family, smaller species than most others known as cockatoos. Male and females are black but females have yellow on face, while males have little if any, both have red inserts in tail feathers seen mostly in flight, large thick curved beak for chewing cones to remove & eat seeds, often seen in small family groups of from two to 6 birds, rests in hunched position on tree limbs, loping movement in flight (slow wing beat), call is likened to a creaky door sound, more uncommon in recent decades listed as endangered.

Habitat:

Found throughout eastern coastal regions of Australia from Queensland to NSW & into Victoria. These ones in north east NSW in casuarina forest along roadside.

Notes:

Vocal when rain is imminent similar to Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos.