They are heavily dependent on of Allocasuarina species for food and as such inhabit woodland and open forests dominated by Allocasuarina with suitably older Eucalypt trees with hollows for breeding. The Glossy Black-Cockatoo is widespread along the east coast of Australia from Mackay, Queensland to Victoria, with an isolated population living on Kangaroo Island in South Australia. When the chicks are capable of flight they are still fed by both parents for up to four months and will remain with their parents until the next breeding season. Males will bring food to the female and chicks during incubation and brooding. She rarely leaves the nest except when she needs to feed herself after the chicks are newly hatched. The female prepares the nest in the hollow of live or dead trees and incubates the eggs. The Glossy Black-Cockatoo pair up and mate for life. The male's tail panels tend to be bright red. The Glossy Black-Cockatoo is much quieter and less noisy than other black-cockatoo species, but their calls are very distinctive, and can be heard easily in the forest.Īdult females can be distinguished from males by their wider tails, yellow patches on their neck and head and they also have black bars breaking up the orange-red of their tail panels. They feed almost exclusively on Casuarina trees and you can often see evidence of their presence by the torn seed pods that litter the ground. Glossy Black-Cockatoos use their strong beak to crack open casuarina tree seed pods to extract the seeds. They have a small, unremarkable crest and their beak is large and bulbous. It has a dull black to brown-black head, neck and belly, with orange to red tail panels and an otherwise dull black body. Of all the black-cockatoo species the Glossy Black-Cockatoo ( Calyptorhynchus lathami) is the smallest at 46-50cm in length. Glossy-Black Cockatoo Currently selected.
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