It's the time of year where crackles of sulphur crested #cockatoos go through plane trees and liquidambars, eating the seed pods.

They're messy eaters, leaving a huge amount of green detritus as they work their way from tree to tree stripping seeds and forcing them to the ground to be eaten by other members of the crackle, working their way along from tree to tree.

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A wild crimson rosella sitting on wire mesh protecting the feed zone from cockatoos. It's eating a corn kernel, held in its right claw. Various parrots and other smaller birds come and go as they please.

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I've seen a few variations in colour schemes on local king parrots, but this is the most radical. Not bright orange (adult male), green (females & young males), or even mottled (teenage boys😂), this one has a grey head & neck, and the rest of its colour is relatively pale & washed out.

When I cropped the pic, I noticed I'd half caught another king parrot in the background, wearing an unusual pale green neck band. 🤷‍♂️

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Trying again, hopefully with working video this time.

A short clip of the large yellow tailed black cockatoo that was outside my bedroom window today. One of my favourite birds, and not a newcomer to the area, unlike the destructive white sulphur crested cockatoos. Their favourite food is banksia serrata cones, which is the tree it's sitting in. You can see a cone to the right of frame.

Hear its distinctive call at this link:
https://www.birdlife.org.au/bird-profiles/yellow-tailed-black-cockatoo/#

Zanda funerea - aka:
Calyptorhynchus funereus
Psittacus funereus

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