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“Red-tails in suburbia” (#18 in series)

 

 

“Routine maintenance”.

Our heroine is more spectacular than the “average” bird, but in this photo she is engaging in a necessary activity which all birds undertake.

It is called “preening”.

Preening is very much more “involved” than most people imagine.

Discover more, here.

Photo of female Forest red-tailed black cockatoo is copyright Doug Spencer, taken in Shenton Bushland at 4.53 pm on 14 May 2023.

Published in Cockatoos nature and travel photographs Western Australia