I always find it interesting to watch the way different species of
cockatoos fly about. When I lived in Perth, it was always nice to watch
a flock of [presumably] carnaby's cockatoos flying over [you try
visually picking a carnabys from a baudins in flight when the only
different is the length of a blackish bill on a black face]. The white
tailed black cockatoos probably have the nicest call of any of the
cockatoos [they don't screech] and I always liked the crazy way they
used to fly [like a kid on a skateboard].
On a traverse of the Great Divide from Mt Cordeaux to Mt Castle
[considerably closer to Brisbane than Alice Springs] I happenend to see
two presumably yellow tailed black cockatoos [judging by their call]
flying beside the escarpment [with a fair updraft]. They were gliding
quite nicely with their wings hanging down like an inverted v [I can't
recall seeing many birds doing that].
We also had a nice close up view of an Albert's lyrebird in a tree [I
don't think it knew what to do about us].
LK
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