![]() Reader's Digest (Australia) Pty Ltd, Sydney. Reader's Digest Complete Book of Australian Birds (2nd Edition). Angus and Robertson/National Photographic Index of Australian Wildlife, Sydney. Usually only one chick survives, and this will stay in the care of its parents for about six months. The female alone incubates the eggs, while the male supplies her with food. Both sexes construct the nest, which is a large tree hollow, lined with wood chips. Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoos have a long breeding season, which varies throughout their range. The Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo is found in south-eastern Australia, from Eyre Peninsula, South Australia to south and central eastern Queensland. Small to large flocks can be seen in these areas, either perched or flying on slowly flapping wings. The Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo inhabits a variety of habitat types, but favours eucalypt woodland and pine plantations. Young birds resemble the adult female, but young males have a smaller cheek patch. The female has a larger yellow cheek patch, pale grey eye-ring (pink in males), white upper bill (grey-black in males) and black marks in the yellow tail panels. ![]() It has a yellow cheek patch and yellow panels on the tail. It is easily identified by its mostly black plumage, with most body feathers edged with yellow, not visible at a distance. The Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo is a large cockatoo. In recent years it has been in rapid decline because of native habitat clearance, with a loss of food supply and nest sites. Or maybe he’s laughing.The Yellow-Tailed Black-Cockatoo is one of five species of Black-Cockatoo in Australia. Mavi is tired after making some fabulous alterations on my pyjamas. This looks fierce, but he was happily la-la-la’ing as he danced. Or maybe it’d have been worse if I didn’t? My new goal is to design body armour for ‘too owners! □ And to think, I was once leery of a bite from a cockatiel. Walking towards him seemed to exacerbate things, in this case. Bobo’s bite has swelled into a big lump, anyway.Īll is well I’m not upset with him, of course, just wish I knew how to handle it better. Having sensory processing disorder, I’m not the best judge of pain – light bumps are excruciating and a tattoo over a wrist tendon doesn’t cause any sensation at all. I kind of hoped it would look more horrific, haha. >_< Least satisfying ‘wound’ ever, in terms of relative pain. Thankfully! Today is not the day to add my first Bobo scar to the collection. I swore that I was going to have tatters for a kneecap, but it was just black and blue, with a couple small punctures. Turned our backs, and when he was calm, we left the room. towelled him and quietly deposited him in his cage. Bobo disengaged again and went for my calves when I turned my back on him, but at that point O. With a 1.5lb bird dangling by his beak from my leg, I went towards the door in silence and managed to call O. He had something nasty in his beak (more than just skin) because it made a horrible crunching noise. Although I started walking towards him and flapping the blanket, he caught my kneecap and ground his beak in. He wanted to nest! So he chomped his way up the blanket towards my fingers (literally two lunges), at which point I bent and got him to let go. ![]() That was a great plan, except that a certain lovely white cockatoo didn’t agree. He lunged, and I decided my best bet was to get the fleece and gently usher him away until he calmed and I could towel him again. I did this without issue, but didn’t have a great grip, so set him gently on the floor. ![]() I had it beside me for towelling Bobo, as it calms him. I guess the real lesson is not to keep the fleece there. Someone had warned me that this is a particularly territorial time for them, so I wasn’t about to let him. I started to slowly realise that he was nesting in the fleece blanket beside me. We had been playing some relatively low-energy games and dancing/singing a bit, and I sat down on the couch. I got Bobo out on my own today, and everything was going okay up until a point. ![]()
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