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Blood-stained Cockatoo

Cacatua sanguinea

Description:

Large white bird with powerful parrot beak that has a red tinge to the feathers about it. It has blue around the eye and is white with accents of pale lemon

Habitat:

These birds are mating in the giant Melaleuca at the side of the salt-water lagoon. They operate throughout a territory of many square miles and change their preference for landing sites according to seasons and fresh water availability

Notes:

Bare-eyed Cockatoo, Blood-stained Cockatoo, Short-billed Corella, Little Cockatoo and Blue-eyed Cockatoo (Wikipedia)

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2 Comments

StephenSolomons
StephenSolomons 11 years ago

Thank you Geraro Aizpuru

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Very nice great series :)

StephenSolomons
Spotted by
StephenSolomons

2262, New South Wales, Australia

Spotted on Aug 14, 2006
Submitted on Dec 16, 2012

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