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BIRD FACTS |
Description
The Short-billed Black Cockatoo is a large black cockatoo with round white marking on ear. The tail has white panels. Male birds have pink eye ring and females have grey eye ring. This cockatoo is smaller than the Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo. It is similar to the Long-billed Black Cockatoo but has shorter beak.
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
Credits:
Map is from Atlas of Living Australia website at https://biocache.ala.org.au licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
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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