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Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo (YTBC)

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Subject: Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo (YTBC)
From: "Denis Wilson" <>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:51:19 +1100
Hi Martin
 
Thanks for that comment.
 
My first lot of Baby Black Cockies arrived yesterday, to learn how to munch on Pine Cones.
 
In Robertson, they disappear briefly during nesting season. They go down into the tall wet Eucalypt forest just about 3 Km away, near Belmore Falls.
Presumably they breed there, as the large old Eucalypts have plenty of huge old hollows.
 
Anyway, yesterday, a family of Black Cockies parked in a large old Radiata opposite my house.
The babies (flying young) did their persistent, creaking noises for about 30 minutes, until I went out with a camera.
First babies of the season, to my knowledge.
 
Hopeless trying to photograph black cockies in a dark pine tree, against a grey sky.
 
Cheers
 
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