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If you come across corellas in a big city, chances are excellent that you are in Perth or Adelaide, that there a great many of them, they are making a lot of noise, and you can easily see that they are doing a lot of damage.
It is highly likely that the species in question is Cacatua sanguinea, the Little Corella.
Its Latin/“scientific” name means “bloodstained cockatoo” – a reference to its pink markings, between eye and bill.
This species has proved “too adaptable”.
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Southwest WA’s black cockatoos are highly sociable and very intelligent.
They are intermittently LOUD, but rarely aggressive/disputatious.
Breeding pairs usually “bond” permanently, and both parents are remarkably attentive to their offspring.
When it comes to enjoying their food, very evidently – both the “capturing” and the consumption thereof – these birds have few peers.
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One of life’s recurrent pleasures in southwest WA is to watch how any member of the region’s three endemic species of black cockatoo “deals with” his or her food.
This involves hugely-varying amounts of “difficulty” or “effort”, depending on whatever is the currently-relevant “nut”, “spike”, “seed pod”, “cone”, or flower.
For Carnaby’s black cockatoos, Banksia are a staple food source.
Extracting Banksia seeds from a “cone” is equally a matter of precision and power.
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There is the small matter of nothing but blue skies being a recipe for the end of all life on “our” planet.
Supplying water is, however, not clouds’ only good quality.
If you wish to photograph birds, trees or flowers – most especially if you are using a digital camera, and there is no “screen” of vegetation immediately behind them – intense, unshaded sunlight is not your “dreams come true”.
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I have no idea whether a human could safely eat the pictured mushroom.
Clearly, however, at least one other fauna species relishes this fungus.
In any event, from a purely human-centric perspective, “edibility” is merely one of an enormous number of relevant descriptors of fungi species’ actual or potential uses.
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Forest red-tailed black cockatoos are very limber.
Their bodies’ flexibility is often spectacularly evident, whilst the power and dexterity of their “footwork” makes me highly sceptical about some claims made about the “unique” abilities of the human hand.
Comments closedHere, unmistakably, is a male, with crest evident.
As you can see, he was clearly aware of our presence, but not troubled by it.
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If you only ever saw black cockatoos in flight, or eating, you could be unaware that their head feathers are “convertible”.
Thus engaged, the tops of their heads are smooth – an uninterrupted continuation from the back of the birds’ backs.
However, once a black cockatoo has a good look around, or is “socialising” whilst his or her feet are locked onto something solid….voila!
Suddenly, you are looking at a crested bird.
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This post’s heroine is the same individual who appeared in #6 in this series.
I suggest you zoom in/enlarge; the image showcases her “remarkable plumage”, and its water-resistance.
Unlike Monty Python’s “Norwegian Blue”, this is an actual, living, wild bird.
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Not least among Forest red-tailed black cockatoos’ qualities is their sheer zest.
A capacity to relish being alive is, I think, unevenly distributed between individuals within a species…and between different species/subspecies.
This capacity is often spectacularly evident in Calyptorhynchus banksii naso.
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