Friday, December 19, 2014

RED-TAILED BLACK COCKATOO


458         RED-TAILED BLACK COCKATOO               Calyptorhynchus banksii

Australia       (306)

50-64 cm. Found in tall open forests, woodlands, grasslands, scrubland, floodplains, river margins, wetlands, river red gums on watercourses. Range sw WA up as far as inland from Shark Bay, small pocket bottom of SA/Vic border, very central of Australia, across north from Kimberley, Top End, most of Queensland and across into NSW to Bourke.




















Subspecies graptogyne, photographed at Little Desert NP, Victoria June 2016