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LONG-BILLED CORELLA FACTS
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Description
The Long-billed Corella is a white cockatoo with long whitish bill. It has orange-red markings across forehead and across the throat. It has a small crest that is usually folded flat. There is a faint yellowish tinge on the undersides of the wings and tail. The eye ring is pale grey-blue.
Other Names
Slender-billed Cockatoo
Size
36-41cm. The Long-billed Corella is larger than the Little Corella
Habitat
open forests and woodlands, grasslands, farm crops
Food
grass seeds, corms, roots, insects, grubs.
Breeding
nests in hollow of large tree. 1- 4 white eggs
Range
south-eastern South Australia through western Victoria to southern New South Wales.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Psittaciformes | | Family: | Cacatuidae | | Genus: | Cacatua | | Species: | tenuirostris | | Common Name: | Long-billed Corella |
Relatives in same Genus
Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (C. galerita)
Major Mitchell's Cockatoo (C. leadbeateri)
Western Corella (C. pastinator)
Galah (C. roseicapilla)
Little Corella (C. sanguinea)
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