Red-tailed Black Cockatoo

Description:

A Beautiful Large Black Cockatoo native to Australia. Adult males (which this is) have a characteristic pair of bright red panels on the tail that gives the species its name.

Habitat:

Red-tailed black-cockatoos are specialist feeders, relying almost entirely on the seeds of Brown and Desert Stringybark (Eucalyptus baxteri and E. arenacea) and Buloke trees (Allocasuarina luehmannii).Clearing of these feed trees is considered to be the main threat to long-term survival of cockatoos

Notes:

With an estimated population of about 1400 birds, the South-eastern red-tailed black-cockatoo is in danger of extinction, and is listed as nationally endangered.