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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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Australia has six black cockatoo species.
All are intelligent, sociable, spectacularly agile, and have very powerful beaks.
The world’s only two white-tailed black cockatoo species – both endangered – are endemic to southwest Western Australia.
My beloved and I are lucky enough to see and hear one of them – Carnaby’s Black Cockatoo – on hundreds of occasions, every year.
The featured image shows behaviour which is very familiar to us.
The other photos show something “new”, at least to us.
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(Sequel to immediately-preceding post. If you are new to Pelican Yoga, please see/read that post before you explore this one)
This post’s cockatoos were not playing “Banksia rugby”, but they were members of the same flock, and also part of our “late arvo Carnabys Encounter” on 15 September 2021, just outside Cape Arid National Park’s northwestern edge.
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Imagine a spectacularly athletic, aerial form of rugby, played by members of an endangered cockatoo species…
This post will also lead you to a superb, long-awaited book by an Australian whose bird photography is in an entirely different league to yours truly’s.
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Our planet has just two white-tailed black cockatoo species.
Both are endangered, and their only “home” is in southwest Western Australia.
My beloved and I live within a very few minutes flying time of the centre of this region’s one metropolis.
For some months of every year, we see and hear one of those two species almost every day – on most days, more than once.
All photos were taken in Blencowe St, West Leederville
Comments closedTiny toadstools and strange flora too!
Biodiversity-wise, Western Australia’s Hollywood is enormously wealthier than California’s.
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