#cacatuidae

Gang-Gang Cockatoo (Callocephalon fimbriatum), male, family Cacatuidae, order Psittaciformes, Australia

A group of long billed corellas (Cacatua tenuirostris) take flight in Robe, South Australia

Bird #55 - the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo (LC)

[female plumage]

You can find these noisy birds in many parts of Australia, usually in drier regions. They are apparently a pest to peanut farms - in Queensland, they've learned to pull out the plants to get to the peanuts! (if you didn't know, peanuts grow underground!)

Another fact I think is cool: Cockatoos as a family diverged from other parrots a long time ago, either right when dinosaurs went extinct 66 mya, or somewhere around 45 mya.

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Carnaby's Black Cockatoo Zanda latirostris

A large black cockatoo endemic to southwest Australia. This cockatoo usually lays a clutch of one to two eggs. The young will stay with the family until the next breeding season, and sometimes even longer. Seeds of plants of the families Proteaceae and, to a lesser extent, Myrtaceae form a large part of its diet. Aboriginal Nyungar names recorded include ngolyenok, ngoolyoo, and G'noo-le-a.