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Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo  

Also Known As: Black Cockatoo, Funereal Cockatoo, Yellow-eared Cockatoo, Yellow-eared Black Cockatoo, Yellow-tailed Cockatoo, Wylah
 
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Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo perched

Credit: (c) Arthur Grosset | http://www.arthurgrosset.com
 
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Did You Know?
The Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo will brace itself "woodpecker fashion" with their tails while looking for grubs and larvae. They will also perch on a "chopping platform" gouged out from the trunk of a tree.

Species Profile
Genus:
Calyptorhynchus

Species:
funereus

Size: Adult Weight:
67cm (26.1 in) 750-900g (26.2-31.5 oz)

Races including nominate:
two: C.f. funereus, C.f. xanthanotus

Colourization Adult:
C.f. funereus: male-in general brown/black, with feathers finely margined dull yellow; soft yellow ear-coverts; side tail feathers have wide yellow band near tip spotted with brown/black. Bill slate grey. Eye ring pink, eye dark brown. Female-ear coverts bright yellow; tail band more heavily spotted brown/black. Bill horn in colour. Eye ring grey. C.f. xanthanotus: both adults as in funereus but with significantly shorter tail; little brown spotting in yellow tail band, sometimes missing in male; smaller in size.

Colourization Juvenile: As in female.

Call: In flight a loud unusual lengthy whistle. Also emits harsh alarm notes. Young birds emit a constant harsh raspy call.

Recent Academic Research: Google Scholar - search results

 

Content Sources:

Pet Place http://www.petplace.com/birds/choosing-a-yellow-tailed-black-cockatoo/page1.aspx

BirdLife International http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=1392&m=0

CITES http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html

Internet Bird Collection http://www.hbw.com/ibc/

Parrots: A Guide to Parrots of the World, Juniper and Parr, 1998.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw and Cooper, 1989.

Parrots of the World, Forshaw, 2006.

Parrots in Aviculture, Low, 1992.

Guide to Incubation and Handraising Parrots, Digney, 1998.