Vik's Gallery:   Glossy Black-Cockatoo (1/6)

PSITTACIFORMES: Cacatuidae

Calyptorhynchus lathami  

A male Glossy Black-Cockatoo feeding.

I was in Brisbane and out birding with Geoff heading to Mount Mee when Geoff suddenly drove the car off the left hand shoulder of the road. No, he hadn't seen a bird. It had just occurred to him that we had just passed a turnoff to an area where Glossy Black-Cockatoos were a possibility.

A U-turn, a few kilometres and one false alarm later (stone those crows), we came across a pair of Glossies up a tree right next to the road.

They were enjoying a feed of Casuarina and didn't seem to mind us a bit as we spent half an hour watching and photographing them from just a few metres away.