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BIRD FACTS
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Description
The Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo is a large black cockatoo with round yellow marking on ear. The tail has pale yellow panels. The male has dark grey upper bill and pink ring round eye. The female has a paler bill and grey ring round eye.
Other Names
Black Cockatoo, Funeral Cockatoo, Wylah
Size
63 - 69cm
Habitat
temperate rainforest, mountains, coastal eucalypt forest, woodlands
Food
grubs, seed capsules from hakeas, banksia and other plants, nuts, berries, plant shoots
Breeding
nests in tree hollow. Lays 1 - 2 white oval eggs
Range
south east Australia from near Rockhampton in Queensland down to Victoria. Also found in Tasmania.
Classification
| Class: | Aves | | Order: | Psittaciformes | | Family: | Cacatuidae | | Genus: | Calyptorhynchus | | Species: | funereus | | Common Name: | Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo |
Relatives in same Genus
Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (C. banksii)
Long-billed Black-Cockatoo (C. baudinii)
Glossy Black-Cockatoo (C. lathami)
Short-billed Black Cockatoo (C. latirostris)
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