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photo taken in Beeliar regional park near Bibra Lake, Western Australia
Image by Gnangarra - Some rights reserved.
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BIRD FACTS
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Description
The Short-billed Black Cockatoo is a large black cockatoo with round white marking on ear. The tail has white panels. This cockatoo is smaller than the Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo.
Other Names
White-tailed Black Cockatoo, Carnaby's Cockatoo
Size
53-58cm
Habitat
woodlands, scrub, pine plantations, grain fields.
Food
flowers and seeds of plants such as banksias, grevilleas, hakeas and dryandras. Also feds on orchards where it causes damage.
Breeding
nests in tree hollow high above the ground. Lays 1 - 2 white oval eggs. The male feed the female at her nest during the incubation period.
Range
endemic to southwest Western Australia, extending from the Murchison River to Esperance, and inland to Coroow, Kellerberrin and Lake Cronion
Notes
Populations have declined by over 50% since 1960, and that they no longer breed in up to a third of their former breeding sites in the wheatbelt of WA.
Conservation Status
The conservation status in the 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals is "endangered".
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Psittaciformes | | Family: | Cacatuidae | | Genus: | Calyptorhynchus | | Species: | latirostris | | Common Name: | Short-billed Black Cockatoo |
Relatives in same Genus
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (C. banksii)
Long-billed Black-Cockatoo (C. baudinii)
Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo (C. funereus)
Glossy Black-Cockatoo (C. lathami)
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