Red Tailed Black Cockatoo

Description:

A large, robust cockatoo with a black bill. Males are black with clear scarlet panels in their tail, while females have a paler bill, yellow spots on their head, neck and and wings. Females also have barred orange-yellow breast-feathers. Their flight is buoyant and laboured, with slow deep beats of long broad wings, similar to that of the Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo. They usually fly above the treetops, typically spiralling down to feeding trees, though they sometimes descend in a sustained glide on strongly bowed wings.

Habitat:

Red-tailed Black Cockatoos prefer Eucalyptus woodlands bordering watercourses but are also found in dense eucalypt forests, woodlands dominated by Acacia, monsoon rainforests, recently burnt shrubland and timbered grassland.