Black Cockatoos of SW Western Australia - Baudin’s, Carnaby’s and Forest Red-tailed Black Cockatoos
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The three black cockatoo species, native only to the southwest of Western Australia are all under threat. The two white-tailed black cockatoos, known as Carnaby’s and Baudin's, are both listed as endangered and the Forrest Red-tailed Black Cockatoo is listed as Vulnerable.
While Carnaby’s Cockatoo is the most well known of the two white tails, the Baudin’s is more endangered, with lower numbers of birds existing in the wild.
I can’t imagine life in Western Australia without these charismatic birds gracing our skies; find out how people across the south-west of Western Australia are helping to protect these birds and how you can too.
The Great Cocky Count is an annual survey of the birds, run by Bird Life Australia. It is one of the largest Citizen Science projects in Australia and aims to get a better understanding of the birds to help conserve their habitat and save them from potential extinction.
In 2021 I participated in the evening survey; find out what happened in this video. The Great Cocky Count is held each year on an evening in Autumn, between late March and mid-April and new volunteers are always welcome across the south west.
The Great Cocky Count - www.birdlife.org.au/projects/...
Carnaby's Black Cockatoo information and audio of call - birdlife.org.au/bird-profiles...
Chewed Marri nut identification - museum.wa.gov.au/sites/defaul...
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Karaakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre (includes financial adoption) - blackcockatoorecovery.com/coc...
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I have a very deep connection with the Black Cockatoo
How special, they are such amazing and charismatic birds 😍
How?
Love this❤
Thank you 🙏🏼💚
Thank you for the information. Cool birds! Cheers, from NC/US.
...Many links in the description are broken, by the way (March 2024). 😄
G'day 🙂 Thank you for watching and commenting and letting me know about the links. I've checked them all and removed the ones that are broken now👍
Cool, thank you! 😄😄
Very interesting. Great photographic work.
Thank you Trevor, I'm so pleased you found it interesting. :)
Fantastic information Karen :)
Thank you Donna :)
I am trying to identify four large birds that are now roosting in the very tall eucalypt adjacent to our house in Sydney. I saw them fly into the tree at dusk so unable to take a photo. They in the light of dusk appear to be of the parrot family, with a large black feather wind span and a black body and have tail feathers that fan out in flight that are black feather on the outside of the fan and then are white on the inside of the fan. Their call is not that of a pied currawong. I have gone online trying to identify them but the only hit was to the Carnaby's black cockatoo....!!!!!!! So I am now perplexed.....is it a cuckoo or a parrot?????
That is so exciting, I love a good mystery 😃. Given your location they could be Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos, perhaps the yellow appeared white in the low light of dusk? Check out this identification on the Birdlife Australia website and see what you think birdlife.org.au/bird-profile/yellow-tailed-black-cockatoo
Also a cockatoo is basically a large parrot, so you are correct, they are in the parrot family 😊. How fortunate you are to have them roosting in a tree so close to your home. I hope there are plenty of hollows around for them when they are ready to breed. 😀
Can you do more videos on Banksia’s
Absolutely, I love Banksia's. I have more planned for future videos 😀
I reckon that the rainbow lorikeets and corellas are almost responsible for the disappearance of a lot of our bird species like 28s, I hope proper management and conservation is established
It's such a shame that they are having such a detrimental impact on local species. The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development is currently developing a WA Pest Parrot and Cockatoo Management Strategy.
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