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.
Click here to discover more about southwestern Australia’s black cockatoos, their precarious “conservation status”, the campaign to “save” them, and what you could do to help protect them.
(hint to any Southwest WA residents: the particular plants you and your local council/government grow – and/or protect – could make a huge difference to these cockatoo species’ survival prospects)
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