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Carnabys: “expected” & “unexpected” behaviour

Published January 31, 2022 by Pelidoug

Carnabys: “expected” & “unexpected” behaviour

 

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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Carnaby’s streets

Published July 25, 2021 by Pelidoug

Carnaby’s streets

 

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

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Wilds of West Leederville, April 2019

Published April 13, 2019 by Pelidoug

Wilds of West Leederville, April 2019

All photos taken in recent days, from local footpaths, less than 10 minutes – by car, bus, or train – from Perth’s CBD.

It is often pleasingly difficult to believe that our metropolis is home to more than two million humans.

At least some things are flowering, at any time of year; the featured image’s eucalyptus was photographed just before sunset on 8 April.

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