Friday 8 October 2010

Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos



 A family of Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoos arrived this week and proceeded to decimate our wattle trees to get at the wood-boring grubs deep in the branches and trunks.

5 comments:

  1. Fantastic, we rarely see them down at human level. They a such huge birds.

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  2. They look like they can do some serious damage.

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  3. Boy oh boy, decimate they did!
    Great collection of shots.

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  4. Many thanks for the comments. These photos were taken less than three metres from our back door. They weren't concerned about my presence at all!

    Joan Elizabeth is right: they are huge birds (about 65cm). Huge and gorgeous. Unfortunately, my photos don't do their size justice.

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