Field guide

Yellow-tailed black cockatoo (Zanda funerea, LC)

Yellow-tailed black cockatoo

A large, brownish-black cockatoo with yellow cheek patches and tail bands, 55-65 centimetres long, found across southeastern Australia including Tasmania. It feeds on she-oak and eucalypt seeds and gouges bark to extract wood-boring beetle larvae, and gives a loud, far-carrying “kee-ow” call.

Taxonomy

Kingdom / phylum / class
Animalia · Chordata · Aves
Order / family / genus
Psittaciformes · Cacatuidae · Zanda

Conservation

Least concern

· LC

Widespread and abundant taxa.

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