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“Red-tails in suburbia” (#12 in series)

 

 

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.

Photo (copyright Doug Spencer) shows a female Forest red-tailed black cockatoo in Shenton Bushland, 4.41 pm, 14 May 2023.

At that time many red-tails were present, and a whole lot of socialising was going on.

 

Published in Cockatoos nature and travel photographs Western Australia