Beautiful yellow-tailed black cockatoos are frequent visitors to the surf beach at this time of the year

Like the white cockatoos and the red-tailed black cockatoos, the yellow-tailed black cockatoos are exceedingly loud noisy and raucous birds. We hear the yellow-tailed black cockatoos early in the mornings as they fly over backyards to the Australian Native trees. They are on on their way to eat the bark and seeds of these trees growing in the green nature strip that runs for kilometres in front of the beach at the Sunshine Beach.

Like all wild birds, the yellow-tailed black cockatoos do not make easy photographic models, they all avoid the camera. They are too busy flying high above the trees finding the right tree to feed on. But the other day I got lucky, they just happened to be a few resting in trees along the waling path on the surf beach.

Unfortunately, not my best shots, but they do show their size and I managed to get a couple of fluke photos of the yellow on their eyes and yellow feathers under their tails.







I went to wikipedia to get the professional pics of the yellow-tailed black cockatoos. I read that the females and males are slightly different with beak colour, eyes and the shade of yellow on their faces. I would never have known this little and maybe inconsequential fact. But, you never know, it may come in handy in a Trivia Pursuit game one day!





They are uniquely Australian birds and due to Australia's strict exportation policy with its wildlife animals, they are rarely seen in zoos overseas. So here is a YouTube clip for any non-Australian Steemian who might like to look at and hear the sound of both the yellow-tailed black cockatoos and the red-tailed black cockatoos.

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